In His Father's Footsteps

Mason, we've learned has quite a knack for wanting to fix things, take them apart to see how they work and build things. He has his own little set of plastic tools (although given the chance he'll pick of any of his daddy's heavy tools in a heartbeat). He's also inherited his daddy's love of Home Depot. As luck would have it, the first Saturday of each month is "kid's project morning" at the big HD. We went in looking for a plant I believe, when the friendly lady at the door said "Oh, are you here for the kids workshop to build the racetrack??" We weren't but it sounded like fun, so after a little pleading to Pat, off we head to the back of the store. The lady at the check in counter was not quite as nice. She wondered just how old Mason was. I think technically you are supposed to be 3 (which he wasn't quite at the time), but by this point, we'd already told him he could build the race track, and let me tell you she was going to have one angry mommy and on screaming child one her hands if she didn't let us play. I nicely told her that the sweet lady up front sent us back here and that we were going to build our track.

We pounded, glued and stickered for about 10 minutes and this was the result. Mason had a blast and he actually hammered in most of the nails. I was in total amazement of Pat, who unflinchingly held the teeny, tiny nails as Mason pounded away at them with a real hammer. To Mason's credit, he did not smash even one finger (his own or his daddy's!)

Thanks Home Depot for an AWESOME Saturday morning!!