My Lego wishlist is just over £1800. Managed to get it down from £2000.
Lego
Building, collecting, and appreciating the art of Lego.
Ordered the Boarding the Tantive IV set for the wee yin and picked up the Tales of Space Age set and the Mos Espa Podrace Diorama for myself. The Lego budget is blown for the next few months!
🎄 Merry Christmas!
Added the standard light set from Game of Bricks to the Home Alone house. I’d say it worked out quite well!
The Lego Home Alone build is coming along nicely. Not much progress this week though as Drew has been in his bed with a virus this week.
Drew and I started the Home Alone build from Lego last night. We finished the van last night and started the first bag of the house this morning.
Lego Marvel Venom with Light Kit
A couple of weeks ago Drew bought this Lego Marvel Venom set. We decided to try out the additional light kit for it from Light My Bricks.
I have to say, the final result looks pretty good. The LEDs and wires fitted into the build nicely, although the green LEDs that go in behind the Venom’s teeth were a bit of a pain to fit and to stay in place.
Unbeknownst to Drew, he’s got a another light kit heading his way for Christmas which will be for the Lego DC Batman head we’ve bought him. I’m looking forward to seeing how that one turns out.
In an effort to break the boredom, I opened a few Lego sets that we had initially put aside.
Drew’s been desperate to build the Tantive IV set, so we’re starting with this one and just doing a couple of bags a day. When it’s done, it’s definitely going to be quite big.
Drew with the first part of his Lego Ideas bait store. Even at this early stage, some of the detailing on the build is fantastic.
The finished Lego Winter Village Fire Station. Most of the work by Drew with me just stepping in a few times.
Drew made great progress on the Lego Winter Village Fire Station tonight. Just a wee bit of help by myself with the fire engine. Well done my boy!
Drew finished building this year’s Lego Halloween set. Well done wee man! 👍🏻
Drew built this little set all by himself. He needed just a little bit of help with the mechanism but just a little bit! #legostarwars #coolbeingadad
Most Amazing Lego Millennium Falcon Ever!
A Star Wars fan has spent a year building the ultimate Lego Millennium Falcon. Absolutely amazing. I just know my sister-in-law would want this.
via Ian Dick
Bricks anyone?
A festive idea for your kids or those just pretending to be kids.
Turbocharge your Lego ...
... with Atoms.
Swoop bags
Finally a bag big enough to hold all my son's Lego with the added bonus of it actually allowing you to see all the Lego you have.
Be present with Nicholas Bate
Nicholas Bate on the importance of being present.
But being where we are, that's another story. In a world of distraction, 'the future is brighter', it's sometimes difficult to just 'be'. To be where you are. In the conversation, in the game of lego, pressing out the weights with focus and concentration at the gym, baking amazing bread, crafting a paragraph, watching the flight of a rare bird and realising it's along way to another planet where you can do that.
— Knowing where are you vs being where you are by Nicholas Bate
Everything in moderation kids, including technology
Digital technology. The great invention of the late 20th century and now integrated into our daily lives on such a scale that many of us take it for granted. It's a very present in our home. We have the usual things like a laptop, a tablet, a games console, a reading tablet, smartphones and a number of other devices like televisions, digital picture frames and various MP3 players.
We also have two sons, our oldest is six years old and extremely well versed in the various digital devices around the house. While I applaud his ability to use all these devices un-supervised, for a while there I was worried about the frequency and time that he was using these devices. Every day started with a request to play this device or that device. I felt he was becoming too dependent on the devices for entertainment.I've read a number of articles in the past about the current generation of youngsters that have been brought up in an on-demand environment. If they want it, they can have it. And that is very true when it comes to digital devices. Very few things are out of reach with laptop or a tablet. I don't want this way of thinking for my kids. Technology is great, but it also has it's place.
Technology plays an important part in education and in the workplace. I'm not suggesting that technology is bad, but rather it's best used in moderation. While I like him playing Minecraft, I also like to see him play with his Lego. Drawing on the iPad is another activity he does, but I like to see what he can create with his own hands using crayons, pencils and paper.
Kid activities such as playing with toys, drawing, reading and getting him outside are things my wife and I are going to encourage this year with our oldest son. This isn't about restricting access to technology, instead it's about teaching him that technology has it's place and he shouldn't be too dependent on it.
Learning to appreciate technology and when to use it is an important subject to teach children. We shouldn't forget that there's a world for our kids to see with their own eyes rather than seeing it through a browser.