Legos

Both Ryan and I have lots of history with Legos.  They were and still are favorite toys in our families.

My brother and I used to build cities in the hallway, he has passed his love of Legos to his daughter and they spend hours building new things whenever they can.  James love's Legos so much I made him a Lego Belt for Christmas.  James and I both have big boxes of our original Legos that Mom saved for us... which is a good thing since most everything these days is themed/branded Lego sets.

Ryan and his brothers, too, loved Legos and his Mom has a huge bin of them waiting for the kids to get a little older.  I've given Ryan Lego's as gifts on several occasions since we've been married.  Lego race cars, construction vehicles, etc.  We've also given sets to his brothers and last Christmas the boys had races on Christmas day with their Lego Race Cars.  And of course, any kind of building runs in the family!  :)

We got a small set of Duplo blocks for Cason's first birthday and have periodically brought it out for him to play with since then. We also have a couple of big bags of MegaBlocks.  He was mainly just interested in the Lego "Man Man" that were in the set for a while.  In the past couple of months, he really got interested in both kinds of blocks and we noticed he'd sit longer and longer building them without us having to help.  I think it just took him figuring out how to put the blocks together and he was hooked.

We found a great deal on a bigger set of Duplos at Kroger (of all places) right after Christmas so Neanie got it for him.  Best $15 ever spent.  Cason comes in from school most nights and will go straight to his cabinet and pull out his box of blocks.  He'll sit the whole time I'm cooking dinner and build, build, build!

He built this "tower" all by himself the other night... Ryan just sat, watched and supplied more blocks and I just came back for progress pictures.

It's so great to watch him find things he LOVES... especially things we love too.

Now if he'd just learn how to SHOOT the basketball, not just DUNK, Ryan would be one happy Daddy!!!  :)