Daddy's little helper

Brian is building a couple raised garden beds to plant a small vegetable garden in the back of our house. Christopher was beside himself with joy at getting to "be a big help" to Daddy.

Christopher is showing Daddy that he has a shovel, too (albeit, a green plastic sandbox one, but it'll work).

As Brian was raking the dirt, so was Christopher (with his blue plastic sandbox rake).

Then, joy of all joys, Christopher got to use one of Daddy's tools, definitely not made of plastic. "That's heavy," he said.

Taking a moment to rest, after doing all this hard work with Daddy.

He looked so little using the "big boy" rake, but he sure was determined to do it just like Daddy does.

A tree had fallen on a part of the fence behind our house - he's sitting on it, goofing around.

When the day was done, he was exhausted and ready for his nap. In his left hand is the lid to Brian's chapstick and in his right hand is the chapstick. He absolutely would NOT lay down for his nap unless he got to take Daddy's chapstick (which he's been smearing all over his face and shoving in his pocket all day) with him. Don't worry, the choking hazard was removed once the picture was taken.