Everything Construction.

Helping Mom load the dishwasher

Very dear to Teo's heart are tools, trucks, and heavy equipment. Not only is his father a construction worker, but reno's are all he's known since birth. Now on our 4th house reno, he gets his daily fix from going alongside Tom and "helping" him where Tom gets it wrong..

Daddy & Teo after ripping down the ceiling

Opened the basement door and found Teo on top of the ladder hammering with a BIG MAN hammer. Gulp.

Cornmeal works great when he misses his outdoor sandbox in Winter

Insisted on wearing his Grandpa's old hardhat at the pirate park.

His most favourite places to visit include (but certainly not limited to)

• Scrap metal yard
• Garbage dump
• Any Construction site anywhere
• Train station (which is also undergoing major renos at the moment. Double the fun)
• Grandma & Grandpa's workroom
• John Deere dealers
• Truck stops
• Lowes & Home Depot, especially the riding tractor section
• Daddy's garage and workshop
• Daddy's worksite
• Early Years Centre tool section

Tom and I find it somewhat amusing when he corrects us about the type of heavy equipment or it's function. He eats, dreams and sleeps construction and I often hear him talking in his sleep about it. Our car trips often include a DVD on Mighty Machines, and I find myself saying "heah Teo, look at the cement mixer" while driving along without him sometimes, only to have my dog or Husband give me a quizzical look. Do you ever do that, talk to your child because you're so used to them being attached to the hip that you find yourself swaying in the check-out line, not realizing you left them at home with Hubby. They grow on you something fierce in everything you see and do, and somehow, someway, they wiggle themselves into your heart and mind and every fibre of your being, and you wonder how you ever lived without them.

Daddy's a little more "lax" than Mommy

Very serious about his construction mags