I forgot to post the picture of us in The Brickington Post from the Brickfair this past weekend! 🙂
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Brickfair 2016
There was no traffic so we made it to Dulles in record time…which was good because at 9:30 there was already a line for the early 10:30 entrance! So I was a good mom and held our spot while Tom and the kids hunted Pokémon. 🙂
Then the ring thing happened so that put a bit of a damper on things for us. But we tried to forget about it because there was exactly nothing we could do about it at the moment.
So we looked at Legos. And wow, was it cool.
Rapunzel’s tower with mermaids swimming beneath!
Harry Potter’s Quidditch Field (both kids recognized it)!
One of my favorites:
This train had a camera on it. Check out the video feed toward the back!
The flying car from Harry Potter. Something like this was just on a random street scene, with maybe a Starbucks storefront and other random characters or cars. So it was fun to spy the things we knew.
I took these pics for Gramma Jean who saw this in real life. 🙂
The kids didn’t know these but we did! Iconic scenes from Charlie & the Chocolate Factory!
Of course there were lots of moving sets—trains and carousels and whatnot. But this was my favorite!
Then we did some quick shopping and we got Owen a Lego with his name on it.
And Tom got a marine. 🙂
By the time we were leaving it was really crowded and was a lot harder to look at the exhibits and it wasn’t nearly as fun…so I’m glad we were there early. The kids had a blast and spent almost the whole time saying “Come look at this! Look mom! Over here! OMIGOSH!” 🙂
Fast friends at the Lego store.
After Owen finished building, he made fast friends with another kid and they were running around the store like this.
Building his Christmas Lego set!
A Lego build in 2:12.
And the post-Lego build dinner at Noodles…missing daddy but chocolate milk makes everything better!
Hedgehog Lego Build
This was from 5/4 but I just got the pics Gramma Jean took. 🙂 She was surprised at how quickly he finished it.
4:21p
4:24p
Mom, take a picture of this.
Owen’s sneaky plan to get a Lego.
We got home from dinner and Owen had been working on this plan to get a Lego. 🙂
Translation:
Secret way to get in the mall to get ultimate clay Lego stand. First tiptoe into the mall. 2 go in the employee entrance. 3. Sneak in the mall go straight to the Lego store. 4. Take a head lamp and a pen and point the pen at his belly and he will knock him out and get the ultimate clay.
Lego Build: Bee!
Papa and Grannie got to see Owen build his bee in about three minutes. 🙂 And then they gave him $10 to pick out an Easter treat which he was thrilled with!
Thank you Aunt Sheryl!
Aunt Sheryl always brings gifts for the kids. Today they got Easter baskets and toys—Owen got a Lego set which he had to put together immediately! 🙂
Minecraft Mine: Complete!
Another Lego finished. This one was a bit easier–ages 8+ and only 922 pieces.
When Owen was done, he was ADAMANT that I take a picture and show it to Mason, his friend in Ohio who also likes Lego and Minecraft. So I posted it on Facebook. His mom’s reply? Mason said “Oh my gosh! That is so cool!” Then did this…
A new position of honor.
I moved the Sea Cow today because I finally took down the snowman and small Christmas trees.
He finally finished the Sea Cow tonight!
Overall he did AWESOME for a set meant for ages 14+…but from now on, we’re sticking to a bit less complicated sets.
More Sea Cow progress!
It got put away for awhile since we needed the room for a Saturday Night Dinner so it finally just came back upstairs. I think he has two bags left.
Mama, take a picture of this.
Valentine’s Gifts
Katie got a Keurig for her kitchen so she can make coffee for daddy…
And Owen got a Valentine’s Lego set and home-printed cards for his favorite iPad game (which we cut out and laminated). If you can believe it, the cards were his favorite thing and he forgot all about the Legos for an entire day!
Sea Cow progress…
We’ve had some ups and downs…Owen continually plays with the pieces and builds other stuff and then ends up LOSING them…so he’s actually almost gotten it taken away a few times. But today we soldiered on and he finished through bag 6.
Sea Cow progress!
Progress! It’s slow going because he keeps stopping to play with the pieces and build other stuff with them. And while I hate telling him to stop being creative, he also keeps losing pieces. And we’d much rather have him build/lose random pieces instead of the $250 set of pieces.
Starting the 2700-piece Sea Cow.
Then of course sister wanted to do hers, too. Which means I get to do it…because Owen is normally the one to help her.
Taking his first break:
Legos with Uncle Rob
The last Christmas Lego set!
Owen got this mini set as a present so we had to hurry and build it so we could put it away with all the Christmas stuff!
“Mom, you have to take a picture of this.”
Preparing for the behemoth.
I told Owen he should start with the easier set so he did his Minecraft set in preparation for the 2700+ piece behemoth (The Sea Cow).
And then he wanted me to send this picture to Mason, the friend that introduced him to Minecraft! So I posted it on Facebook. 🙂
We split a Lego set.
It was on sale at the Lego store so I told Owen we’d split the cost. He hasn’t built something big in awhile so he was excited!
Typical Lego mini-build
Start—5:20pm
Finish—5:23pm
“Let me get a picture.”
“Owen, look at me.”
“Look at me!”
“Look at me!”
“OWEN! Right here! Look at me!” 🙂
It only took two days!
Owen’s summer challenges: complete!
Owen just finished his “100 Books in 100 Days” and “200 Pages in 100 Days” Challenges!!
It wasn’t all easy—he fought the workbook pages a bit and got WEEKS behind but caught up at the end when he realized he might not get his surprise. 🙂 Also, to be honest, he really probably only read a total of 60-70 books, but a bunch of them were small chapter books (like 10 pages per chapter, three or four chapters per book) so he got multi-credits for those. And this was his reward!
Me and Owen got treats!
To celebrate my weight loss, I went shopping. 🙂 I was hoping to find a pair or two of capris on sale that would last me the rest of this season (and most likely through the spring when I will hopefully need another new size—the way my body apparently fits into pants, I may be wearing these for 3-4 months (if I keep losing at the same rate)). This was me trying on new jeans—and kind of liking how they looked and feeling good! I sent the pic to Tom saying I wasn’t sure—they were a little tight but they were stretchy—and he said GET THEM. Smart man, I know! 🙂
And then we got Owen a future treat at the Lego store (we’re changing his chore chart reward system), and he was giddy about the Minecraft displays. 🙂
Charlie’s weird.
Yes, she’s on the table…on the Legos.
Another birthday present down…
