Purple Lego Car

Recently Matt told me that Lego had just launched a new line, Lego Friends, aimed at girls. In an effort to win Viva over to the Lego Party, I purchased a small set of Legos from this new line.

I chose the convertible car and car wash. Viva was eager to put the set together. She did most of the piecing herself. She's not quite as good at following the instructions as the boys, but that's because she prefers to do her own thing. She looks at the instruction booklet and finds the pictured pieces. Then she places them wherever she thinks they fit on the model without referring back to the booklet. Sometimes her intuition is good. Sometimes not. Legos are great for creating your own design, but the first time around it's nice to build the set as pictured on the box--in case you lose pieces and are never after able to build the item you paid money for.





Viva enjoyed building the car and car wash. She played with it. She particularly liked that the minifigure included with the set had changeable hairbows. There was even a small dog on whom you could put a matching hairbow. (Is that a European custom?)

Viva showed off her new car to her brothers. They were impressed, but Jake did comment: "That's not a car wash." Viva replied "I told you it's not a normal car wash." The Lego car wash is a faucet and bucket, not a building you drive through. I'm sometimes surprised how many odd details about modern life young children know. They are always watching and filing away information.