Growing weeds and boys

As soon as Noah could talk, he talked about lawn equipment.  We would give him the Farm & Fleet ads from the Sunday paper, and he would pore over them and get all excited about the "mow-mow's" and "wee-wee's" (weedwackers).  When he was just barely two years old, he got a toy weedwacker for Christmas, and he was in love.  It was second only to his toy mower.  When his Daddy was doing real yard work, Noah would follow behind him with his toy yard tools and pretend he was just like him. 

 

Here he is at four and a half years old, still loving his weedwacker.  He even kept it in the shed on the same hook with Mike's real one. 

 

Today he used the real weedwacker for the first time, and he loved it!