Candy Shop

You know the saying about kids in candy store. Most kids are in awe of the bright colors. You can see the gluttony in their eyes, as they seek to devour every piece of sticky goodness they can hold in their chubby little palms. You know within minutes of letting them go, there would be a mixture of sugar, slobber and fuzzy nothings outlining their tiny, pink mouths...blue and green-tinged tongues, suckers half-eaten, gummy worms torn in two. You get the picture.

I kid you not, Jadon would rather be in our garage or in the tool section at Lowe's than any candy store on any day of the week, any time of the day! This is his candy store: and so is this:

Everywhere we go---Lowe's, Home Depot, our garage, Grandpa's garage, etc., Jadon HAS to see a hammer! It's one of his favorite things in life! He says it like he's Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator..."Ammmmahhh." Loves them! Since he developed his fascination with "ammahs," he has now learned the names of every other tool (i.e. pliers, wrench, saw, etc.). One of his newest favorites is scissors, and apparently he thinks Jamie has the coolest pair he has ever seen, when he saw him trimming hedges out his bedroom window the other day.

"Scissors," he asked.
"Yes, I suppose those are scissors, buddy."

He's also a HUGE FAN of watching Daddy cut the grass outside. He stands with his nose to each window in the house, running from room to room to watch Jamie mow. Then he'll turn to me, smiling and tell me a story about "Daddah" and the "gass." Everytime he gets to the flashcard that has grass on it, he tells me the same story over and over. The kid LOVES tools. Wonder if he'll be as excited, once Daddy is ready to hand over the landscaping duties to him in about 12 years???

"Ammahh!" (*translation = "I'll be bahck!")