Mini Mechanics Gifts

"What's wrong with my bike, Papi?"

His verbal skills are developing, but his motor skills are very advanced. (Originally published on 2009-02-01).

'I don't like the sound of the engine.'

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

boy plugging leak in a barrel with his finger

"When I grow up, I'm writing the Great American App."

Baby Piano

'Couldn't you just bring a bucket and spade like other children?'

The Hobby Store

'How do you like my two-tone car?'

Twenty-first century baby walker

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

Child driving a toy car

Child using building blocks to get over a baby gate.

A baby playing on a grand piano

"Bruh, that is some SERIOUS kazoo."

'I'm a virtuoso on the middle pedal.'

'Mum! Come and see the coffee-table I've made with my new tool-set!'

Girl on a giant pair of scissors.

A young positivist.

Take a bow!

"Whether they are his first words or not - E.V.'s do not make that sound!"

"It's a 'pencil' - It's like a pen, except that it's made of wood!"

Violin Player

'Why do I have to do this? -- Violins never solve anything!'

This one's mixed media--- I had jelly on my hands while finger-painting.

"Face it -- you resent me for the exploring in depth a world that you take for granted."

"Wait, so his first whole sentence was 'I don't want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day'?!"

Baby dressed for the opera.

'I told you to not get Danny that Junior Carpenter set.'

'Allow me. After all, I'm planning to be an electrician.'

"She thinks it's a touchscreen."

Little Piano

A child busking

'Music hath charms,' &c.