Wednesday, November 11, 2009
still cool
A while back my parents got a hold of a Lego Duplo train set for Birdie. Along with lego train tracks, vehicles and people are pieces that can be made to act as bridges or stations. Birdie not only enjoys it but is enchanted by it. The first time after we set up the scene and later proceeded to dismantle the tracks, I thought her response would be complete meltdown. Instead her reaction was intruiged and curious. What could we build now?
It was then that I rediscovered... she and I are blood.
I love Lego. I could never get enough. You know how there are girls out there who play secretly with Barbies a bit longer than they should? With me, it was Lego.
I recall unusually cooperative scenes between me and my sister on Sunday mornings, playing Lego in the early hours after waking. We did so under the auspice of not waking my parents (because I imagine that we were their morning alarm on any other day) so as to avoid a trip to church. One out of three times, it worked. I think we could play Lego, building and rebuilding our hospital room set in a variety of ways for upwards of four hours. The occasions my dad figured our scheme out were not well received, but he had his reasons. We had ours.
So, we're back in Legoland and it's still way cool.
For that reason, I can't wait until Christmas.
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Sunday Lego Mornings.....Bliss! I love the memories of us getting along so well when Lego was involved.
So... what you are telling me Esther is... you want lego for Christmas? haha!
I remember those days well as well... every Christmas you got a new set of Lego of some sort... always well received. That is why I kept the whole mess of legos till now, so one day your children could play with them as you did.
I remember those days well as well... every Christmas you got a new set of Lego of some sort... always well received. That is why I kept the whole mess of legos till now, so one day your children could play with them as you did.
I too have fond Lego memories. Hours and hours of house building and I also had a kitchen set. My mom sewed a cool (large) drawstring bag that opened flat for a playing surface so when we were done the pieces hardly had to be cleaned up - as long as they were still on the fabric you just closed up the bag! It was handy to contain them in the car. Back in the days when there weren't seatbelt issues they'd drop the backseat of the hatchback on long trips and we'd play, nap and horse around. Damn that was good compared to what our kids deal with.
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