Tool Time!

Jeremiah has a fondness for his play tool set. His favorite thing to do with them is to help Daddy fix things. So whenever Daddy has his tools out, Jeremiah runs to get his. Recently Missouri passed a bill or something where we all have to get new license plates when we register our car. Stuart's time to get new tags was up so he came home and took Jeremiah outside to put the new plates on.

However, getting the plates on was a much larger challenge than anticipated. The bolts were affixed in such a way that it seemed as if the license plate holder was never intended to be removed by any other person. Because it was taking such a long time, Jeremiah got a little bored and decided to "fix" his shoe. (Notice one strap is not velcroed down.) So he took his hammer to his shoe to solve the problem.

Nothing like a good banging of a hammer to get that strap stuck back down. It cracked me up. I don't think I ever thought of hammering my velcro shoes back into place. Maybe I just needed a toy hammer. Anyway, after an hour of working, our new plates got on the car. They were on perhaps crooked but at least they were on. And Stuart so nicely summed it up, "Just because you have tools, doesn't make you a mechanic." Very true in our cases.