Is it a violation of child labor law if the children aren’t paid? Are family? This was my justification as I pulled an old Tom Sawyer move and convinced the kids that it would be fun to dig a trench for me to bury a downspout. Actually the kids asked me if they could dig, after I had already finished the job, but I couldn’t help but feel like Tom as I sat there in my lawn chair watching the football game while the kids dug away. Mason, as it turns out, was great at digging and was able to get the trench a little deeper for me while Cutler was great at following him and knocking the dirt back in from where it was just dug.
We also discovered on this day that Cutler is not, as of yet, set to be the next King Arthur as he was not able to pull the mighty Excalibur shovel from the tight grasp of the earth despite his vocal effort.
Team Fricke 
The boys look like they are going to be a big help to mom and dad. We could use them in our yard for planting in our flower beds this spring—-send them up here to Missouri, the home of Tom Sawyer!
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