He’s like a chocoholic, but for Lego.
Zag wakes up in the morning and comes in and snuggles with us for a while. Then he gets up and goes back to his room to play with Lego. He has to be pried away–sometimes physically–to get his diaper off. I dress him alongside the lego table most mornings. He must be coaxed away to eat breakfast. Then he goes back up.
This morning, I got him to play a different game with me for almost 15 minutes. He wants to eat his his snacks at the lego table. He wakes up from nap, takes off his diaper, gets pants on, and goes–you guessed it–straight to the Lego table, where he stays until WB comes home. Unless he just stays up there and calls for us to come up and play with him.
Everyone he meets gets assessed for their level of interest in Lego. And invited to come play legos with him.
I guess I know longer have to worry about how to keep him occupied all winter.
This is probably the first time in my life I have ever said this: Sometimes, I think, maybe, I might be starting to get just a little bored of playing with Lego.
December 9th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
We have nothing comparable, though I think that insidious Elmo and a book by Richard Scarry could hold H’s attention for a good 15 minutes. I can only hope that he likes lego, too.
BTW—I enjoy (and will soon post on my blog a reflection about) Bert’s song “Doing the Pigeon,” which is all about loving something that nobody else seems to love as much as you.
December 9th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Well, what were you expecting, honestly? Now see, if you’d only moved somewhere much closer to us, you could just drop Zag off with me and we’d have all kinds of fun together. And K would quickly become the only wage-earner in our household.
December 9th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Well, it turns out that as I was writing this, he actually built some things with Duplo for a while, and also laid out some wooden train tracks. So maybe it’s not quite all Lego, all the time. Not quite.
Juan: we did try to move closer, but really, perhaps it’s just as well. If it was the two of you feeding off each other, I might have to become qualified at putting in an IV drip just to keep you both hydrated and nourished.
December 10th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Ya know, it’s funny you mentioned that, because I’ve been considering what the best way to build a minifig-sized IV drip lately. Here’s a sterling example, making excellent use of a fiber-optic cable component:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3337073
Dunno why it’s hooked up to a chicken, though.
December 10th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I think you might be getting a little bit bored with Legos. Maybe you should invite me to come over and play with Zag. In fact, I quite would like to only have to eat a mere spoonful then race off to go play Legos.
December 10th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
My friend The King, you are most welcome to come over and play with Zag any time. We would happily provide all spoonfuls necessary to keep the both of you playing.
December 12th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Oh my. Tilt and The King appear to be talking in code! Play fair, gentlemen, it there an inside joke you care to let the rest of us in on? Or will you insist on cravenly concealing the meaning of this “spoonful?”
As bluesman Howlin’ Wolf famously said, “Seem’s evrything’s a fight about a spoonfull.”