Kiddo turns five today.\u00c2\u00a0 After debating a number of gifts (He loves the few video games that are playable and suitable for his age that are made for the xbox360, so we were really thinking about a wii), we decided on legos.\u00c2\u00a0 He likes building toys, and enjoyed his old toddler sized ones (oversized, easier to stick together) for a long time, and recently was telling me that he doesn’t want to play with “baby legos”, and wants\u00c2\u00a0some with “little dots”.\u00c2\u00a0 At preschool they have a drawer of regular legos set aside for the older kids who don’t take naps or for when they are ill; they are a special treat.<\/p>\n
So, I went in search of legos.\u00c2\u00a0 Something has happened to those old primary colored blocks in the many years since my brothers and I dug through them happily building away.\u00c2\u00a0 Finding plain vanilla legos proved to be an adventure.\u00c2\u00a0 Want to build a deathstar?\u00c2\u00a0 a pirate ship?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Spongebobs underwater home?\u00c2\u00a0 Then legos are apparently for you.\u00c2\u00a0 Boxes of complex designs, blocks of specialized shapes and colors — what happened to my legos!\u00c2\u00a0 After\u00c2\u00a0a trip to my local “one stop shopping store” (a few feet of aisle devoted to legos), then to Target (an entire aisle), then to Toys R Us (2 aisles), and then finally to an entire\u00c2\u00a0Lego Store\u00c2\u00a0I recalled seeing in the mall (I’m not much of a mall shopper), I eventually found\u00c2\u00a0a<\/strong> box of simple legos\u00c2\u00a0instead of\u00c2\u00a0sets that won’t require mommy and daddy to sit down sweating over design plans.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, OK, there were two.\u00c2\u00a0 One box with just plain old blocks, and one “starter set” in a tub that must be at least half non-blocks with windows and doors, etc.<\/p>\n For me, a box of legos (or tub of lincoln logs or tinker toys)\u00c2\u00a0is supposed to be an\u00c2\u00a0empty canvas, an invitation to imagination.\u00c2\u00a0 There is just something sad\u00c2\u00a0about all those lego sets, confined to pattern, closed to creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kiddo turns five today.\u00c2\u00a0 After debating a number of gifts (He loves the few video games that are playable and suitable for his age that are made for the xbox360, so we were really thinking about a wii), we decided on legos.\u00c2\u00a0 He likes building toys, and enjoyed his old toddler sized ones (oversized, easier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}