Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to share some fun pictures of our son doing what he loves most: building things!

Bob Vila

Our son has so much fun playing with things most kids we know don't really care much about. He is happy as a clam if he gets a bunch of tools and wood to play with. You should see him when he first got some raw pieces of wood from my DIY stash. He made things on the floor for about a week. Every single day since then he plays with the wood at least once a day, often more, to make train tracks or something else. It's really special!

So in my other post, I shared the build process of our awesome toy box! What I saved was some great pictures from that event for this post here, to share with my Home Edders friends! :D

So if you've seen my posts in here, you know that our son loves being all up in the mix of whatever we are doing, rightfully so because he's an explorative kind of kid. He is always trying to learn things or do things differently so he was absolutely on board with helping me.

He needed to have his own set of pieces of wood to try and get them bolted in, screws and the other various tools of the trade!

So I was trying to iterate to him the importance of doing things the right way. It takes longer and more effort in the beginning but in the end, it ends up costing you less. Short cuts aren't the way to do things in some aspects of life, building things is absolutely one of them! He was helping me put things together and was always curious as to why I was doing it a certain way. For example, the first wooden wall was bowed outwards a little bit because the wood was warped. I showed him this and told him we needed to fix it because it was safer for him to do that instead of leaving it like that because it will eventually break. I additionally showed him that you need to properly support your structures with whatever you are doing. The extent I strengthened the toy box was beyond what would be available in other settings but that's perfectly fine, it will last longer!

He was trying to get his blocks in the right spot to get them secured properly!

He was also a great helper for me. He helped hold the boards in the place I needed them (at a safe distance to his hands and fingers of course). We just finished screwing this side board in here, he helped hold it from the top so it wouldn't wiggle!

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