Critters: diggerman

Today was perhaps one of Harrison's best days. Right up there with his first trip to the zoo, the day we went to the children's museum in Indy, his first day on the beach in Michigan last summer, and hopefully the day he first met his little brother Henry. There are other great days that I'm forgetting so please do not be offended if I've forgotten your event.

Today was diggerman day.

Harrison is fascinated by all machinery things. But especially big diggers, bulldozers, dump trucks and excavators. Next, we've had a stinky sewer smell in the basement that comes and goes depending on weather, wind and other unknown factors. It's been there since we bought the house. So last week I hired a plumberman who ran a pipe camera down the sewer line and found what looked like a crack or missing coupler...8 feet from the corner that the stinky smell emanates from. We also had a sewer cleanout/old toilet pipe in the corner of our finished basement...not good.

So then I hired a digger and a diggerman to come and dig up the sewer pipe and fix it. Diggerman showed up today and boy was Harrison excited. Diggerman Steve was a really nice guy.

Diggerman Steve's job was to dig 8 or 9 feet down to our sewer pipe, locate the break, fix the sewer pipe, put a new sewer cleanout in the yard, dig new trenches to extend our gutter pipes, build new gutter pipes and extend them 15 feet further from the house, fill in the trenches, and remove and concrete over the the sewer pipe and hole in the concrete basement floor.

Harrison came home from daycare and saw the digger + diggerman in the yard and completely freaked out and we rushed him over to watch. Mostly Harrison just sat in his camp chair in the yard and watched the dirt get moved around but he also asked Steve and his helper son Scott a lot of questions about dirt and holes and diggers and shovels. He loved it.

Best part, Harrison got to drive the digger and is now officially a diggerman. I have never operated a digger, but my oldest now has. He sat on diggerman Steve's lap and got to drive and spin around, and he actually got to operate the joystick for the bucket arm and dig part of the hole. Definitely one of his best days. Ask him about it. He will tell you all about 'holes, big digger, pipes, shovel, trenches, dirt, pipes, diggers, mud, big holes, diggerman, big big big dirt pile' in that order. And then he'll tell you about 'big big holes' and 'diggers' again.