For Christmas Elian got a very large Duplo Lego set complete with balls and tubes from Ed's sister. It's perfect for him. Only problem is he gets way too attached to the things he builds.
He's been in sort of baby-playground building stage where he creates these elaborate playgrounds with tube slides, teeter-totters and climbing equipment for "babies" and wants to leave them up for weeks on end. They take up about a third of our rug in the TV room, so you can imagine my delight. I keep trying to explain to him the beauty of Legos. How you build something, take it apart, only to build something much cooler the next time. But he's not buying it.
Our current baby playground has been around for about three weeks now. Funny thing is, when his friend Solveig came over for a playdate the other date, she was immediately drawn to the baby playground. They played with it for a good 20 minutes which is like four hours in adult attention-span. A few days later, it sat and sadly no babies were playing at the playground. I asked him if I could put away and it was met with resistance to put it mildly. So there it sits. The baby playground.
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would photographing each masterpiece keep them alive for him? have him keep a scrapbook. it could also end up being his foot in the door to MIT!
We suggested that a few times. He's not biting.
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