The Trouble with Legos
You probably thought I was going to talk about how those infernal little bricks hurt when you step on them as you make your way across the living room.
Yes, that is a problem, but the trouble I am really talking about is how boyey they are and that they are apparently more addictive than meth.
I have a daughter that LOVES Legos and at this point we have found about 2 series of Legos that she is interested in putting together. We found the one box with the pink half-house and from there she has been doing the creator and the city series. She did a couple of the atlantis ones (the shark – she also loves sharks, and the crab) but so many of the sets really are aimed at boys.
The new Ninja thing is just too far out for her to even get excited about. Additionally, now we really have to go to the actual Lego store to find varieties of the series for her to build. You know how it is, department stores keep a variety but they are often similar to one another in what they carry.
Here is the Shark she was so proud of…this was one of the first sets we got her.
This is from the city series her Aunt Brianna and Uncle Aaron gave her for her birthday last month. She had it done about an hour after we got home from her birthday party.
I took her to the Lego store this past Saturday and got her the creator car (it has 3 patterns in one set), the city series semi-truck and a little Easter bunny set. They were all put together by the time we got home Sunday at 1. 🙁
She is already hitting me up for the next visit to the Lego store.
I did have a chance to talk to an associate at the Lego store who assures me there is a new “girl” series coming sometime this year, but I am a little worried it will be lame. I can’t imagine it will be hot pink race cars or other cool things. The Lego clerk hopes they extend the Disney partnership to make a Cinderella’s castle kit or some other items along those lines. That could be okay.
She really isn’t to the point yet where she makes stuff on her own, she wants to follow plans and build what they tell her and there aren’t books of Lego plans out there either – a couple of adult books but nothing for her age.
Lego does offer the ability to enter your own design online and they will make a kit out of it and ship it to you. I am just starting to fool around with what we could do there, however it seems to me if she were ready to start designing her own things, she would. Maybe I am being simplistic there.
I don’t know the answer, all I know is these have to be good for her engineering/spatial brain and the the new ninja monsters are just gross.
So for now, I guess the only trouble with Legos I have any control over is paying closer attention to where I step.
And I bet you thought I was gonna say doing a better job of making her clean them up…yeah, right…