Lego Love
Posted on | January 13, 2010 | 10 Comments
Archie got legos from Fancymom for Christmas. When Archie unwrapped that gift, my first thought was meh followed shortly by: DEAR GOD I’M GOING TO STEP ON THOSE THINGS.
Meh because I’m a girl. And I’ve never owned a lego. To me, they look like little bits of things I’ll need to stoop to pick up about 50 times a day and that is just not fun. Also, there’s no way to put clothes on them or dye their hair blue. Or day dream of a life in Malibu with beach parties and tiny waists.
As for the stepping on them part, well, Moms can I hear a what what about stepping on toys? In the morning? Or on the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night? Or what about stepping on bath toys on the shower? Anyone ever step on a Lincoln Log? I HAVE. For those of you without children, let me just say that in the split second after stepping on a toy, there are expletives. A lot of them. In rapid fire.
I put away the legos and didn’t really encourage Archie to play with them unless Fancyhats was around because I didn’t want to clean them up and I didn’t want to sit there pressing little bits of knobby plastic into other bits of knobby plastic.
Until a few nights ago when I discovered that legos come with a guide. Recipes. A pattern book, if you will. These patterns follow step-by-step instructions for building various things. And not only that, but Archie’s legos came with patterns for a farm, and farm animals, trucks and a gas station. A GAS STATION!
If you follow the pattern, you can build these little bits of awesomeness.
IT’S LIKE KNITTING, PEOPLE.
I can sit there and meticulously work with my hands and have a finished product that looks how it’s supposed to! And I CAN DO IT WITH ARCHIE AND FANCYHATS!!!! This eliminates that pesky knitting guilt I feel when I’m knitting and ignoring everything around me BECAUSE KNITTING IS THE ONLY TIME THE VOICES ARE QUIET!!! Also the parenting guilt I feel because racing cars around the couch bores me to tears and sometimes that’s all Archie wants to do and I tell him that my car is broken and maybe he could fix it in his room. My car breaks a lot.
Now I’m all about the legos, and like knitting, I want more. I keep looking in this one little set of legos and wishing there were more. I want the space station lego kit and the shopping mall lego kit and the office park lego kit. I WANT THE WORLD!
In summary, legos have made me a better parent. Also, they are like knitting. Except I can’t wear them out to places.
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January 13th, 2010 @ 9:43 am
My brother loved, loved, loved his legos. OH my goodness how he loved them. I was more into Lincoln Logs, but oh. The lego love. Did you know there’s a working lego watch? That you MAKE YOURSELF?
January 13th, 2010 @ 11:19 am
who knew that toys could be FUN????
January 13th, 2010 @ 12:29 pm
I grew up with boys so I love Legos, Lincoln Logs, and Matchbox cars.
Society should never tell girls they won’t like these things.
I also like My Pretty Ponies and Barbies so you know, I’m not GAY or anything.
January 13th, 2010 @ 12:38 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRDi67G0Siw
January 13th, 2010 @ 1:25 pm
I used to step on my own legos a lot as a kid. It hurt but I still loved them.
January 13th, 2010 @ 3:18 pm
I have a six year old and have been giving and receiving Legos for awhile. But it wasn’t until this Christmas that I discovered the blueprints nestled inside the box. The results: I made a four inch tall squirrel thereby moving one step closer to resolving my long standing fear of these jittery rodents from hell.
Brilliant.
January 13th, 2010 @ 4:08 pm
I gave my 6 year old nephew a Pirate lego set for Christmas, which REALLY pissed off my brother, but also made my nephew realize that I am the GREATEST AUNT EVER.
Both of my goals? ACHIEVED.
January 14th, 2010 @ 9:43 am
Fancyhats? That’s pure genius.
January 15th, 2010 @ 5:07 am
You would think I love playing Barbies and My Little Pony and Calico Critters, but NO.
I get all control freakish and then Charlotte DOES IT WRONG AND MESSES UP MY STUFF!!!!
I’m still 4.
January 15th, 2010 @ 2:02 pm
I…uhhh…what do I say here. Oh yes, my family is so obsessed with Legos we are tranforming a room in our house dedicated to them. We went to Legoland in San Diego last year for BB’s birthday.
Yes, I think that is all.
Watch the obsession with the Legos…it is real!