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We haven’t done one of these in awhile.
Clone Dalek
After we watched a Doctor Who episode on Daleks, Owen created this. 🙂
A new Lego lover?
I’m not sure if she thought they were snacks or she just happened to end up laying in that spot for some other random reason…but I thought it was cute.
Once in awhile I just like to secretly record him.
I was going to trim it, but there’s a few good parts. 🙂
Owen’s nirvana
After running our errands, we surprised the kids by taking them to the Lego store at the mall. They were both excited! There was lots of Star Wars stuff around so Katie kept screeching “YODA! YODA!”
We were willing to buy him a huge $80 set (that was on clearance) but he chose a little $10 set instead. 🙂
Then we stopped at the play area on the way back.
This is what I found in the hall this morning.
Owen was trying to entice Katie back into his room. 🙂
Turns out, Owen wanted Katie to follow the Legos back into his room. 🙂
One of Owen’s cool Lego figures
Gramma got this picture of Owen this morning with one of his current builds.
An awesome Lego case!
Gramma Jean found this for Owen when they were in Florida earlier this year… HE LOVES IT! He filled it immediately with the few Legos that he brought.
He’s going to hate it when the furniture gets here.
Lotsa Legos
When there are this many out at once, he doesn’t mind sharing as much. 🙂
A little while later, this is more what it looks like…with Legos strewn all over.
I love that her foot is in a plastic bag.
Owen’s first face-painting!
We stopped at the farmers market on the way home from a Costco run…and they had face painting! Owen had never had it done, and I thought I might be able to entice him with a superhero…and it worked!!
The before:
He had a handful to choose from. Can you tell who he picked?
Katie and daddy were waiting:
Sponging on some red…
Painting some lines…
The final product—he was suddenly shy and wouldn’t look at me and wanted to go to the car. Oh well.
But once we got to the car, he had turned into Spider-Man and he was ALL SMILES!
And even throwing webs!
When we got home, he was a super big help unloading the car, and then I heard “Mama take a picture!” Yep, he had found his matching Spider-Man Lego head! 🙂
My guys are talking!
On the way home from errands, Owen was playing on his phone. But he needed to put his Legos somewhere… He said his Battle Droids were talking. 🙂
And a closer view so you can see it better.
Lego building day
Last week, Mr. Eagle Eyes saw the Star Wars lego box on top of the fridge where Tom had tried to hide it. And we’re suckers, so told Owen he could have it Monday if he was good all weekend. Well, he did pretty good but on Sunday had a bit of a failing so the reward got pushed to Tuesday (which his reaction almost got the reward pushed to Wednesday).
So come this morning, he was READY. He did 99% of it on his own…and it’s an age 7-12 project!
Owen made a Lego fish
He’s so creative with Legos… Usually it’s panels from his Star Wars Lego video game, but today it was a fish!
Happy boy!
Katie is napping and Tom and I are busy upstairs so he has the whole floor to himself for Lego construction!
Random fun on our last night
ATTACK!
They both like Legos and Owen is willing to share!
Getting ready to start loading the car!
Happy, relaxed family!
She wanted to try to poop so very badly…and she’s SO cute.
Legos with Anna
We brought a new Lego kit for Owen to build…and Anna was more than willing to help! They made a great team and did a good job. (The next night, Izzy helped and they did an amazing job!)
Owen said: “Wow! We have a lot of Legos going on here.”
The Lego Movie
Tom and I took Owen to The Lego Movie today. He was SOOO excited! The whole time we were coming home from Costco he was telling us to hurry so he wouldn’t miss the movie! We assured him we would be home in plenty of time. He even wore his new Lego Crocs!
The movie was really cute and Owen was super excited to see some of his own minifigures in the movie!
As the movie ended these were my exact thoughts:
- I feel guilty for super gluing some of Owen’s original minifigures together.
- I want to go buy him more Legos right now.
- EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
You’ll understand all of those when you see the movie but here’s #3:
Then this happened on the way home:
Snow day birthday Lego project
Owen wanted to work on this Super Heroes Lego kit he got for his birthday. He did quite well for the first two hours…then he started to lose his focus and get a little grouchy. So we took a break and finished it when daddy got home. But overall he does really well and doesn’t need much help.
The post-party party
We had the gang over after the gymnastics party so we could hang out and visit—with everyone’s busy schedules (and with Trimble’s living back on base instead of in the same neighborhood) we rarely get together anymore. We ordered pizza for dinner and had a few drinks while the kids played. We had Owen open his gifts sporadically throughout the night and then had him blow out candles on his cake (I had forgotten candles for the gymnastics party). He loved opening his presents and pretty much every response to every gift was an excited “WHAT!?!!” It was super cute.
Then he opened his big gift from us—a used iPhone 4—and he looked at it like “Huh?” and immediately said “Daddy, this is yours!” and tried handing it to him. He completely didn’t understand that it was for him, even after I showed him the Lego Indiana Jones wallpaper. He was just too excited about all the other Lego/Ninjago/Star Wars stuff. We should have kept it until after all the excitement of the day was over.
Building one of the smaller Lego sets he got:
Taking his birthday picture…that I didn’t technically need to do because it wasn’t his actual birthday!
Katie, I’ve got to show you something cool.
Lego Helper
Katie helped to put all the Legos in the bucket, then..
Playing Legos together
Amazingly, she never tries to put them in her mouth! She just takes them apart, hands pieces to Owen, and tries to put them together.
Maggie doesn’t quite know what to do with Katie in her bed.
Where I finally put Maggie so she’d relax. Except I think she knows it’s not quite right because she keeps rearranging herself. 🙂
He looks at this book every morning and every night.
This Lego Minifigure history book (LEGO Minifigure Year by Year: A Visual History) was a Christmas gift from Uncle Doug, Aunt Marie, and cousins Gabrielle and Robert—and he LOVES it! I’ll turn on his monitor in the morning and he’s flipping through pages. At night, that’s the book he wants me to “read” (I say “read” because he really just wants to flip through the pages and look at figures and ask me what their names are). Almost all of the figures he says “I want this for next Christmas.” 🙂
EDITED TO ADD THE FOLLOWING NIGHTS AS PROOF:
Sure, that’s a great place to play Legos.
Because your toys aren’t already taking over the playroom, the living room, your bedroom, and the upstairs living room…
Lego parade
He’s been into parades lately. Sometimes they’re in a long line like this one…and other times they’re eight abreast. 🙂
Look what Santa brought Gramma Jean!
Santa does know all! He knew Gramma Jean was staying with Owen, so he brought her a Lego car to assemble! So the three of us put it together!
Lego sorting day!
After we sorted them all, we had a few battles (swords and knives vs. guns and lasers, ditto, ditto, girls vs. boys) and played with Gramma Jean.
Lego Minifig Consolidation Day
The day I pick to try and consolidate all of Owen’s Lego minifigs is the day I swear I will never buy him another one. He starts off thinking it’s going to be fun…then fizzles out about 20 minutes in and just wants to play.
This happens every few months. 😐
The top layer are fully-assembled figs; the bench holds figs that are missing something (could be just a knife or could be arms, legs, hair, hat, and a base). I am always flabbergasted at how many pieces are missing…and the number continues to grow.
