I One the Sandbox

AJ had an all-star weekend recently when he got to build a sandbox with his Papa. When I heard about the plans to build a sandbox, I figured that it would be an all summer thing with little spurts of working here and there. I was impressed when these two tool lovers got it done in two weekends (one to buy the supplies, the next to build and paint the box.) The week between the initial trip to the hardware store when they bought the supplies and the next weekend when the sandbox was built was like the week before Christmas for AJ. Every day he would wake up and tell me "Build sandbox! Papa! Saturday!" And I would say yes, in five days or four days or three days you will get to build that sandbox. When sandbox weekend arrived, things got off to a bit of a rough start when AJ, who was hopped up on tool junkie adrenaline, was running with a couple of tools in his hands and got clotheslined in the eye area by two boards resting on the sawhorses waiting for cutting. It was like watching a roadrunner and coyote cartoon. But after a kiss from mommy he recovered and spent the rest of the day blissfully handing papa tools and assisting with the cutting, pounding, etc.

The pictures above are of Little Dave, the union supervisor for this project, and then Papa and AJ in all their glory using a handsaw.