For his birthday, the Stumachers got Grafton his own workbench, replete with a hammer, screw driver, adjustable wrench, and pliers, all of which can be stored on its peg board with hooks, or in its 5 shelves or cabinet. Now that Grafton's got tools, he's starting to "fix" things! For example, he was just banging away at his tractor trailer with his hammer. After some manly work, he declares "all fixed", followed by "still broken", which meant another trip back to the workbench for another tool, and which no doubt means more banging is in the near future. The best part (for us parents) is that when Grafton is done "fixing" something, he takes his tools back to the workbench and hangs them back up on the pegboard!
Earlier, we were playing "pick up and drop the tissue". When the tissue fell behind the workbench, he said "I'll get it". And when I asked how he would do that he answered "with the hammer", which he pulled off the workbench, rotated the workbench out of the way, and the fished out the tissue with the hammer. And of course, the hammer went back up on the pegboard when done.
The workbench is also serving as his Play-Doh play area and his Automoblox and Hot Wheels maintenance shop. He likes to perform tire rotations on his Automoblox cars, although mostly he just takes off the wheels. When Grafton is too tired to stand in front of his workbench, he'll find our short wooden stool and slide it over to the bench, and then sit or kneel on it as he works away on his cars or fills them with Play-Doh.
When Grafton's all done working hard at his workbench, he'll cool off by diving into his pool (blue bean bag), after which he's all "wet".
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