Max has just barely gotten interested in legos. And he's very very interested in them right now.
I've gotten him some legos before, and even spent time putting them together for him, but he never really caught the vision. He didn't realize you could customize and change things I think.
I really like legos. I think they're a lot of fun and they're good toys for learning dexterity and fine motors skills and lots of other things.
I have to give Kelly & Lechelle the credit for this. They gave us Lego Star Wars for the Wii for christmas and Max has really been enjoying it. Once he started playing that he started thinking about legos a lot.
He started playing with the sets he had and making star warsy type things out of them.
Then he took his chore money he'd been saving and purchased a small official Star Wars set.
He was thrilled. Ok, I know in this picture it looks like he's a little less than thrilled, but that's just his "cool guy" smile.
I also got a little set that you could make a house and car and dog out of which he thought was really fun. Especially the dog. The little dog is so cute!
He enjoyed that. But we had a problem. The Star Wars set he got only had good guys in it. No bad guys. Lots of blasters but no bad guys. The poor people in the house and car set kept getting enlisted as bad guys and it just wasn't right.
So I told him that if he could try hard to keep from chewing his fingernails for a week I would get him the bad guys.
I made him a chart of course, and he did well enough (with lots of reminders and mercy of course) that he could get the bad guys. Now he's complete.
It's just fun to see him playing and having fun and being a little creative with it.
And it's fun to see him enjoying Star Wars--it was definitely a part of my childhood, and Kris's too. Fun stuff.
