Big Boy Legos

At Christmas Nonny had bought Tobias some real Lego’s. Of course we already had quite a bit of the baby stuff, Duplo, but non of the real stuff yet. As I have probably written before, Tobias does not seem to be much of a builder (much to my Engineer’s dismay…), but he has enjoyed playing with the Duplo.

Well, he still likes it, but is starting to realize it is time for the big boy thing. Last weekend he wanted a “light sabre”. As you know I am a pacifist and hence not in favor of such Toys, so, I suggested to get some Star Wars Lego’s that I had seen in the toy store before. He liked that idea, so, we went out to get some.

It turned out it was a bit too advanced, meaning it was advertised to be for 7-14 years… We did see pirate lego’s and knight lego’s for 5-12. He liked the knight stuff, so we got a tower with a big sling shot and some knights.

As you can see it takes him quite some concentration (and time ) to put it together, but he likes the thing and we have been playing with it quite a few times.

Who knows, maybe he will develop some building skills after all .

Building a Hut

Last week I switched my daddy day from Wednesday to Friday. Thursday morning when I took him to school he started talking about a hut. I wasn’t sure where that came from, but I told him we could do that sometime. That night, when I put him to bed he started talking about it again. He told me he would like to build a but “soooooo much”!

The next day, after I picked him up from school, we had to get a gift for a friend. While we were out shopping he saw some candy and said: “Papa, let’s buy that, so we have something to eat in the hut.”. That sealed the deal. We went home, I put Lorelei to bed, got some blankets out and we built a hut under the table. We spent most of the afternoon in there playing games, watching Dinosaur Train, and eating candy.

I was kind of cramped which I noticed the next day by means of a sore shoulder, but it was great fun… Today is my daddy day and this morning he told me he wanted to build a hut again… Let’s see what happens .

Electric Guitar = Cool

Tobias recently got new clothes. Among these clothes were two “cool” shirts. One is the one he is wearing in this picture. It has a pirate ship on it. The other is one with an electric guitar on it. He calls that one his Bob Dylan shirt .

Well, an electric guitar on a shirt is cool, but a real one is even cooler. One of the reasons an electric guitar is cool is because of a Jerry Lee Lewis rendition of Led Zeppelin’s Rock and Roll. It starts out with Jimmy Page on the electric guitar en Tobias loves it. When I put on music he tells me to put on his favorite song, meaning that particular song…

So, the other day I showed him my electric guitars and used my Metal Zone effect, giving it the Jimmy Page like sound. He loved it and wanted to try for himself…

I guess a guitar is also something you have to grow into, size-wise .