Brigg and Stratton recently built me a rack for my skis in the garage, and Brigg has been trying to find a stud in the wall to hang it on, but since we don't own a stud finder and our other attempts have turned up empty, so far it has been alot of listening to walls. Yesterday morning while I was drying my hair Stratton came in to ask where his yellow wooden hammer was. I told him which toy box it was in and he came back with it a few minutes later to tell me that he needed it to find "stums". It took a few question to figure out that he was looking for studs in the wall like his Dad. So, he proceeded to systematically tap all the walls in the house, with Dashell the copycat close behind with his little red hammer. I peeked out of my room to watch them for a minute and heard Stratton tell Dashell, " Dashell, we are looking for stums. They are animals that live in the walls." I had to sneak back into my bathroom to have a good laugh about that. Later that night when I was telling Brigg about the "stums" in the wall, Stratton snuck out of bed and was listening outside our door. When we caught him, he asked Brigg " Dad, do stums have sharp toenails?" I don't know how he gets any sleep with the idea of sharp toenailed stums in his walls. And I think I'll still leave the repair work to his Dad until he figures out a few more of the basics.
