Before Luis was born, Thomas gave him a planer. The gift was given in care of Diego and me - to keep safe until Luis could enjoy it himself. Diego used the planer to make the crib and glider chair, as well as a few other projects. Diego is working on a new piece of furniture (not anything for a nursery or kids room), and has the planer going again. This time, Luis is interested in participating and helping out. Diego is very careful to wear ear protection when using the (really) loud tools. He is equally good about making sure that Luis wears ear protection as well. Here are Luis and Diego working in the garage on Saturday.
Besides "assisting" with the planing, Luis loves loves loves to play trucks in the sawdust generated by the tools. He has taken his big set of tonka trucks, along with his shovels, buckets, and wagons over to the sawdust pile. We are planning to put a sandbox in under his new fort/swingset, but now I'm thinking we should just move the sawdust instead of buying sand.
2 comments:
Awesome, at least he'll have a good trade skill to fall back on in case university studies fall through.
Did Diego liberate that headgear from the plane taxi crews at Dulles?
I loved playing with sawdust as a child. A friend had a big pile of it leaning against a wall in her terraced garden, and we would leap from above into the pile. So.much.fun :D
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