4 Year Old Mechanic

Sometimes when I'm looking for something to do with Joshua and Daniel we search through YouTube for interesting videos. Past videos have included funny cartoons (Gopher Broke and Exercise Machine) and robots in action. I was surprised last weekend when, instead of entertaining videos, Joshua wanted to see pictures of engines.

We checked out the Wikipedia entry for internal combustion engines, and from there found some good animated engine diagrams and a couple of really good YouTube videos of engines (here and here). Both Joshua and Daniel liked watching them -- I'm suspicious that they'll be engineer types. Maybe when they're older we can build model engines and maybe even a go-kart!