"Mom, nothing is better than Lego. Lego is the coolest!"
We think perhaps Santa may have passed info to the Easter Bunny, who brought a Lego fire truck along with this year's stash of jelly beans. (The police helicopter has been around since Christmas.)
Edward received his first "Lego Club" magazine in the mail yesterday and is even more enthralled, which we would hardly have believed was possible. It includes a few sets of directions for smaller items as well as pictures of kids with their own creations. Edward is eager to get building, but reluctant to take apart any of his current items (some put together according to instructions, others self-invented.) I guess we need more pieces. My mission for the summer is to find out what happens to Lego when kids outgrow it. What do people do with the tubs full of little pieces? I've seen some selling it by the pound on eBay. I'm curious to find out if the same is true at area garage sales (saving the shipping.)Edward's teacher also thinks that the time spent manipulating the small pieces has strengthened his hand muscles enough to improve his writing and drawing. He has much better control in the last few months and has begun to draw recognizable figures (a wrecking ball, a castle, Thomas the Tank Engine.) We're not talking Rembrandt here, but more than just a few squiggled lines on a page, which was about the extent of the "art" he had been bringing home.
