Lego Fever

After visiting Legoland and seeing all their awesome Lego sculptures and then visiting the Lego store in Downtown Disney twice, we were all pretty hyped on Legos. We came home with a few small kits. The children built the really small kits while still in Florida. Then they built their other kits when we got home. Then they helped opa build his two kits. Then opa ordered more kits online. They haven't arrived yet.


Viva is building the Lego Friends set she picked out at the Lego store in Downtown Disney in Orlando.


Bentley and Jake are helping opa build his set. Lincoln is trying to get his hands on a Lego piece or two, but Bentley is holding him back. Lincoln is not happy.


The boys are working on more of opa's kit.

After finishing opa's two kits Bentley and Jake took apart a few of the Lego creations sitting on their Nilo table. After making room for new creations Bentley opened up one of his birthday gifts--Lego Cars Big Bentley Bust Out. It had 743 pieces in it. It only took B two days to build everything. Viva helped him with some of the work. I wasn't allowed to help him except for a time or two when he needed stronger fingers. Jake and I built a plane from one of Matt's old sets.

When we got home from Florida we had Lego minifigures waiting for us. We purchased them on eBay the day before we left for Florida. Mark and I got a few to add to our collection and the boys picked out some they wanted. What did they pick? Bentley chose his usual theme of warriors or villains. He got a Viking, a Spartan, a Space Villain, a Sailor, and a Deep Sea Diver. (Okay the last two do not fit the theme. He ran out of warrior and villain choices.) Jake chose a Ninja, a Fisherman, a Skier, a Spaceman, and a Magician. Viva only requested one, a Figure Skater.




Why do we collect minifigures? It's an interest we can share with our grandchildren. It's a relatively cheap hobby. Jake claims to have conversations with his minifigures. Bentley was rather skeptical, but Jake told him that his minifigure only talks to him when he's alone. "It's magic." he told his brother. The next day he told us that he has an Invisible Black Batman minifigure. Since then he's had quite a few conversations with Invisible Black Batman.