If you give a boy a screwdriver...

... he might put Dad out of business. I can't wait until he's big enough to tackle Major Home Improvements, but it was pretty cool that he spent half an hour removing all the baby locks on the cabinets and checking the hardware so the doors would close properly. Baby steps.

My budding writer

"The Terrible Snow Globe"
by Daniel, age 8
One day, I entered a toy shop. I was looking for a birthday gift for my friend, Susie. I looked at the train isile [aisle] and saw two things. One was a train with a re-railer, track switchers, curves and straights. Can you guess what it was? A snow globe! "Hmmm. Which one would she like? Maybe I should listen to the music of the snow globe." I tried it. Bad idea. I was sucked into it. "Ahhhh!" I screamed. Then Pifff! I landed in the snow! "Where am I?" Then I remembered I was in the snow globe. I asked someone how to get out. All he said was this: "Walk right around the globe and meet three people they will give you a quater [quarter] of a map I will give you a quater of the map. When you get all of the map, put them together and follow the lines. Good luck!" By the time I got the last peice of map, I followed the line. It stopped in a black dot and I found a hole in front of me. "Yikes! That is one deep hole. Oh well, it's worth a shot. Isn't it the only way to get out?" I jumped in. I was back in the toy shop. I bought the train.