I love Lego. I had it growing up, but of course back then it was simple rectangle pieces in 4 primary colours. Now sets come with such oddly shaped pieces, that I can't tell which way is up. The new sets are pretty awesome though. Liam and I have been coveting some of the bigger Star Wars sets for a while now.
Last week we headed out so that Liam could spend some money that he got for Christmas. He really, really, really wanted the Millennium Falcon set, but only had half the money needed. So he started his sales pitch. "Mama, you love Star Wars as much as I do." "Mama, wouldn't it be fun to work on this together?" "Mama, haven't you always wanted this set too?" "Mama, don't you have some Christmas money that you got? You could put it towards the Millennium Falcon." I'm pretty sure this kid is going to grow up to be a con artist... he can talk his way into a lot of things.
So I pooled my Christmas money (and then some) with his and we came home with a 1200+ piece Lego set. We worked a lot on it on Sunday, and surprisingly, we finished it tonight! Now the only question is where to keep it. It needs to be played with (check out the detail!) but we don't want it to get smashed or broken. Hilary doesn't seem to keen on my suggestion that we box up some of our antique tea cups and use the sideboard as a Lego display case..... I'm not sure why, it seemed like a perfect solution to me!
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