Daddy’s Little Helper

Posted on 17. Apr, 2009 by Beckie Stewart in Funny Kids

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Our four-year daughter enjoys the times she can come along side my husband while he works on a project around the house. Most of the time, she joins him in the garage. He gives her a small wrench, and she is convinced that she has tightened the bolts on the Volkswagon Beetle he is remodeling.
However, the other day my husband decided that he was a furniture expert. He turned the sofa on its side and began to pull the staples from the bottom covering. After he exposed the springs, he decided that he needed to remove the entire border in order to repair the springs.
“What are you doing, Lana?” I asked.

With her plastic tool in hand, my daughter looked at me without skipping a beat and said, “I’m helping daddy wreck your couch.”

Creative Commons License photo credit: greenkozi

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