beautiful lego.

until recently i had left playing with lego with the kids up to mark. he is the dad therefore he does lego. but not now. raising girls by stephen biddulph encourages parents to get their girls into lego. and not the pink ice creamery nail salon kind of lego – real proper building. this encourages their mathematical skills and engineering finesse. so i have decided that little miss v will get a lot of lego/duplo for her second birthday this year. don’t you just love that vintage ad for lego from 1981 above?

when shopping for lego for miss v i bought a little something for joey. and on saturday we sat down & built together. it was so good. even though i grew up playing with lego (i have an older brother) i have never done the ‘build by the book’ kind of lego. i just loved it! i totally got into the police buggy that turned into a helicopter and next minute was a speed boat … how do they do that? do they work backwards from a model? it’s just amazing. how cool to be a lego engineer.

i love that lego brings some good solid one on one time, that it uses fine motor skills, that it creates and re-creates. i could not think of a better way to spend a chilled out saturday afternoon at home with my son. just look at his concentration and satisfaction. i can’t wait to spend some afternoons with miss v doing the same. it’s the gift that keeps on giving

xx

* photo source here