Future Engineer?

OK, Nanna, you have guilted your daughter into catching up on the blog. In all honesty, I have had a list of blog ideas for some time, but they have gone to the back burner in lieu of getting ready for another baby, digital scrapbooking, babymooning, and general life. But I will try to get a little more consistent.

One thing I have wanted to document for some time is the handy tendencies we are seeing in KK. She is definitely taking after her dad in that regard. About a month ago, we got all of KK's baby gear down from the attic to examine it and decide what we needed for LittlePeanut2. It was quite a project and stuff filled our foyer. Katelynn zeroed in on the exersaucer which was in numerous pieces and started playing with it. I was busy organizing and not paying much attention to her; I was just happy she seemed to be entertained. After about 15 minutes she came and announced, "Mommy, come look! I put the exersaucer together!" Much to my astonishment, this turned out to be true. Now she couldn't quite figure out how to snap the top to the bottom (which is definitely too complicated for me!) but she had set the top gently on the bottom, and snapped all the toys into the little holders on the top. Mommy was impressed with this 3 1/2 year old.

Fast forward a month. Gene has spent quite a bit of time over the past week assembling a bookshelf and dresser, and reassembling the crib, for the baby's room. In the past Gene has labeled me "assistant girl" for projects such as these and asked me to fetch tools, hold things steady for him, etc. This is a task which I have always abhorred and complained about continually until the pain was over. Much to my delight, my daughter makes the most perfect assistant girl ever. She absolutely loves to help her daddy with these projects. She is learning all the names of the tools and is very eager to please and impress her daddy. She won't spend 30 minutes with me working on her alphabet, but she will sit and watch a piece of furniture go together for hours. Gene has informed me that she is a much better and more pleasant assistant girl than I. I have no issue with this!