LegoLand

Lately you may be noticing a trend with us. There is a lot of talk of STAR WARS. Let me tell you, it is NON STOP. All day long I am fielding questions about plots and dialogue. Grandmom and Grandpa, if you want to know what to do to get ready for your big weekend with the kids in a few weeks, brush up on your STAR WARS :). Otto has never seen the movies as he insists they are too scary. He is super sensitive to movies and songs so I am sure he right. Eric cut together (because he is cool like that) a short series of clips of just droids and Luke talking but he won't even watch that. He has however seen this commercial and we all think it is roll on the floor funny.

All of his STAR WARS knowledge comes from asking us a million questions about the movies, reading his LEGO STAR WARS dictionary and looking at eric's old STAR WARS cards. Aside from some crazy Lucas freaks out there, he has a better understanding of the movies than most people I know. Along with the total love of STAR WARS is a love of LEGOS. He plays with LEGOS all day long. I am not kidding. We have moved furniture around in the living room to give him a large dedicated space for building. The stuff he makes is really cool.

Otto is defiantly a kid who finds something that interests him, tries to learn everything he can about it until, maybe years later, he has satisfied his curiosity on the subject and moves on the to next thing. It is actually a very good way of learning. Complete immersion. Eric says he remembers entire phases of his childhood devoted to space, snakes, sharks, cars, STAR WARS and girls. In that order pretty much. He claims to still be interested in the cars, STAR WARS girls, snakes and sharks, not so much. You can see why him being an academic is really a good job for him. The only toy he really remembers as holding his attention for long periods of time were LEGOS. He is, I would say, equally as excited about the LEGOS and STAR WARS as Otto is. They sit together for hours and build, build, build. We need more LEGOS just to keep up with what they are making.

Eric has been a bit crushed that I have not shared with you some of his better creations over the past few days. Luckily I can since he took pictures of them before Otto started playing with them.

Exhibit A: Tie-Fighter Notice the corner turning and dots on both sides. "that's a big deal" to quote eric.

Exhibit B: Slave 1 (is now the time where I can mention the fact that this represents the only time I ever knew a STAR WARS trivia question that eric didn't. What is the name of Boba Fett's ship? Slave 1. I mean, COME ON, who doesn't know that? :)
I also thought I would throw in some cool pictures that Otto and Eric set up with the toys. Here they are doing crazy flash blocking, red eye using "mood lighting"
And this is just too cute.
So there you go. A glimpse into the world of life with STAR WARS obsessed boys. Mette is fast on their heels though. Today she came running looking for me calling "where is my Padawan Ashoko". You would know from her calling me her Padawan that this makes her Anakin, of course. And you sure as Hell better call her the right name, or it gets messy.