Legos

It's been just over a month since I've blogged.  We've been busy!

Dave was home from Iraq for two wonderful weeks.  We got to spend a lot of quality time together as a family, and Dave and I got to go deer hunting a few times.  Two deer and two weeks later, he had to go back to Iraq but we have some great memories.

Now, what about Legos?  The girls have become obsessed with them!  They lurk online looking at new sets, they look at them in the toy isles, and they want new sets for Christmas.  We never had any Legos till this year when they got their first set last Christmas, and they were hooked. 

I like Legos for several reasons. 

1.  The girls have to follow detailed directions to put together Lego sets. 

2.  After initially building a set, they use their imagination and rearrange the sets in hundreds of different combinations.

3.  They use their imagination in playing with them and making story lines.  They even have political discussions between the characters (apparently our Legos are conservative). 

4.  They use a camera and take stop-motion photography pictures to make "movies."  They even write on the white board to make captions, like in old-fashioned black and white movies. 

5.  They are (mostly) durable and last for years. 

What I don't like about Legos are the price (I consider them very expensive) and how they get spread all over the room (they really hurt when I step on them).  Are they worth it?  At this point, I'm saying yes.  It falls in line with our unschooling philosophy and creativity. 

This had been the year of the Lego, and for that I am glad.  Webkinz were really starting to get on my nerves.