Update on Spencer's "stash"

In my last post, I reported that we haven't found out where Spencer's "stash" is.

We have now.

1 of the missing measuring tapes have been recovered.


We were driving home from church on Sunday.

I happened to glance down into the little "cubby" compartment on the side of the car door by my feet.

It drives Todd crazy that I put things in those cubbies. Like the school coupon book I feel obligated to buy from all my children who are currently at the elementary school level, an extra diaper or two, or the empty coupon carrier. It also houses the windshield scraper (on the driver's side).

As we drove down the street I glanced down and saw something shiny.

When I reached down, I started to laugh.

I had located one of the missing measuring tape.

How Spencer got it there no one knows.

Daddy's Shadow

Spencer is a craftsman in training.

Since we started our addition project, he has followed Todd around wanting to help and do what Daddy is doing.

He loves to be outdoors and if it's with a hammer in hand he's even happier. When Todd took a week off to work on the house, the first thing Spencer said when he woke up every morning was: " I get dressed and hep (help) Daddy.".

In the last 6 months, Spencer has walked off with 2 metal measuring tapes and Daddy's carpenter pencils. Who knows where they are???

We haven't figured out where he keeps his "stash".


Spencer actually got this piece of siding to stay put. He went and found his own plastic hammer and a scrap of siding. He then put a handful of tar paper nails in his pocket and proceeded to pull the nails out one at a time and nail them into the holes in the board. (I found the leftover nails in his pocket that night when I got him ready for bed.) Spencer calls the 2 step ladder "his ladder". He goes and gets it if Daddy has his ladders out.

I think Daddy helped him find the holes in the existing siding to hold it in place. But Spencer put in several nails to make sure it held in place. He even holds the nails between his fingers (like Daddy) so that he can hit the nail and hold it in place.

When Daddy moved around to work on the garage siding, Spencer decided he would just help nail the siding up that Daddy was putting up and I ended up with roofing nails as high as Spencer could reach between my garage doors.


It sure makes Daddy proud.

Even if he has had to replace his measuring tapes and pencils.