LEGO-mania!

My brother, very thoughtfully, gave us a giant bin of LEGOs -- the ones that he and I played with when we were kids. I pulled them out a few days after Christmas, when we were hibernating due to massive cold, illness in the family and closed daycare. They were a huge hit!

I have never seen Ben & Maddie play so nicely together and sit and work on the same thing for such a long period of time. There were a couple days when we just built Lego stuff for two or three hours at a crack in the morning and then again in the afternoon. Crazy!

I was especially impressed by Maddie, because she has a hard time doing things on her own. She usually needs some direction. But with the Legos, she just went to town building and she wanted to make her own creations -- without help from me and without looking at any guidebook.

Ben, on the other hand, wanted me to make him the creations in the guidebook that came with the Legos. And of course that was impossible because the stash of Legos didn't necessarily have all the right pieces. UGH. But we did our best.

Here are their two spaceships!