Life is tricky when you have a child who doesn’t really play with toys. I mean he PLAYS, just not with the typical store bought toys that most kids spend hours whining and begging for. He doesn’t ask for every new toy that comes out, he doesn’t have a laundry list of interests I can use when family asks me what he wants for his birthday. The only thing that has consistently held his interest for years is LEGO.

Those simple blocks opened a world of possibility for him, to create anything and make it whatever he needed at the time. Cars, houses, animals, good guys and bad guys. Lego games are only limited by a child’s imagination. He will sit for hours, patiently sorting through bins of lego while his little mind creates worlds and objects only he understands. I mean, he even SLEEPS on it when he can!

Even our older girls get in on the fun sometimes, now that lego friends is on Netflix our middle daughter will snuggle up with him on the couch for a few shows. It’s cool to listen to them discuss whether they think they could make things they see on the show with their own lego. We’ve even stretched all our imaginations by inventing our own family lego games, because when you don”t have cable and the power goes out A LOT, meaning no Netflix!!, you need things to keep everyone jollying along together.

Lego Games!

Lego dump night is quickly surpassing family game night in our house as the most chosen evening activity. We take the bins of lego, and everyone writes a theme on a slip of paper. We take turns pulling from the hat to choose the theme and everyone has fifteen minutes to create their masterpiece. The chooser of each round judges the creations and at the end of the night whoever has the most wins gets bragging rights for the week.

With Lego there is no “right way” of doing something, it’s whatever you want or need it to be at that moment.