The Machine...

This kid needs some power tools.

For about a week now Walker has been planning on making "a machine" in the backyard on Wednesday... today! He made a drawing last week and a supply list which he thought about and wrote all by himself.

He begged and pleaded for parts at Lowes... the 47 times we went there over the weekend.

Today when I picked him up from school he talked all the way home about "the machine" going over each item. Safety googles... check. Work Gloves... Mommy I need to use my gardening gloves... k?...check.

We got home... he gathered up his tools and tool box headed outside with some scraps of wood I found for him and pulled out his saw... he sawed as hard and fast as he could... and then promptly pounded on the door. "Mommy my tools don't work... I sawed and sawed and the wood just stays the same!"

He pouted for a bit when I told him he had to just use his imagination... pretending to build something... explaining that Daddy's saw and tools are just too dangerous for kids to use. He had even a more furrowed brow when I told him safety scissors and a glue stick were all that he could use along with his pretend tools.

Watch out world... this kiddo is going to be an engineer... builder... an inventor... I'm sure of it.