Master Builder

Both of my sons, the eight-year-old and the twenty-year-old, absolutely love Lego. Despite being twenty, we still get the older one a Lego set each Christmas and birthday. Like me, he sees no reason to stop enjoying toys just because he's older. He just enjoys them in a more sophisticated way.

The twenty-year-old came back to visit us for a few weeks recently, and while he was here, he became embroiled in a Lego project at the behest of the eight-year-old. We were watching YouTube videos, when this video came up:

The eight-year-old became obsessed with the idea of making a similar Lego construction. He had a Lego T-Rex, which at the time was missing its arm, so it needed something else. The two embarked on the project, watching the video, and trying to copy it as much as they could, but then adapting it to something else if they didn't have the right pieces. We even made a trip all the way down, 45 minutes away, to a new store in Pearland called Bricks & Minifigs, where we could buy used Legos by the piece. That's where we picked up a few pieces that they were having trouble finding in their masses of Legos.

They worked on it off and on for the whole two weeks that he was visiting, and barely finished the day before he had to leave. He insisted that I take a bunch of pictures, because this was one of the best creations he'd ever made. It was his thesis for his masters in master building. So, here's the pictures of our finished product: