An Engineer or Inventor in the making???

My sister Miriam gave us some hand-me-down tinker toys a few months ago (man I love hand-me-downs, they are the best!) Anyway, Christian is just discovering them and I think he's in love. Christian is the kind of kid who will sit at the kitchen table and take a part and put back together a flashlight or a pen over and over again. So these toys really are right down his alley. The other day he came to me and said "Mom I want to play with Tinkerbell toys." - HUH?- I told him I did not understand and he took me to the bag that had the tinker toys in them and then I understood. I had to explain to him that they are not called Tinkerbell toys but Tinker toys. Can you tell that he has a lot of girl cousins and friends :)


This is a helicopter he built all by himself, it spins and everything, he was so proud of himself.



Christian is starting to realize now that Evan is bigger and is starting to walk that he might be able to work him into his daily schemes. My parents got Evan a truck to ride for his 1st birthday, but of course he hasn't quite got the hang of pushing himself on it. Christian wanted to ride trucks so badly with Evan one day but was getting frustrated because Evan couldn't follow him on his truck. I explained to him that Evan is still learning how to push himself. After that talk Christian went to get the diaper bag. He wrapped it around both trucks got Evan on his truck and hoped on his and dragged him around the house for a while. Evan thought it was great. What fun brothers.