Legos!

Something in the sound, feel, sight, or maybe even the smell...you're just never too old to enjoy a good afternoon with a miscellaneous box of Legos. Certain pieces have always captured my imagination--the windows with shutters that open and shut, the fake trees and flowers, the transparent blue, red, and green blocks, the strange little yellow people with painted-on clothes... I look at the box of pieces and quaint tableaux pop together in my mind.

On the other hand, what the guys see in the little plastic building blocks is the potential to create functioning, technical models. Where I see a story, they see the tools of invention. More power to them! In the end, we all had a great time. :)

Tofu got in on the fun

Todd and Eric worked on designing a propulsion system for a styrofoam "boat." They used a Lego robotics set that Eric uncovered in our storage room.

And it worked!