the blue blog archives: mine's bigger than yours

Another trip to the Lego store. The boys saved up their points, picked out what they wanted, and carried the boxes out of the store with much excitement and oh boying. And then, as instinctual as speech itself, B looks at his brother's box and says "mine's bigger than yours." Nevermind that S's legos are more complicated or have more pieces than B's. Nope, apparently size, and only size, is what matters.

posted by alison at 9:21 am | in legoland

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Maybe I asked you this already but have you bought *Zoobs* for your kids? Mine love them!

Posted by: Scout at June 3, 2006 9:38 AM

I have to share with someone who will understand - we've just had a delivery of 2kg of second hand lego I bought from eBay - cue ugly scenes of Mummy fighting with her 4 year old for the bits of roof...

Posted by: Anne at June 3, 2006 9:47 AM

OMG! LOL we buy legos by the pound too lol
So far only my eldest seems to notice the relative size of their posessions. I think the middle might be verging on it, but so far hasn't said much because her things are usually completely different from the boys. All of them, however, do notice the NUMBER of posessions/gifts/prizes. I've posted a pic of their latest bit of silliness on my blog if you'd like to see.

Posted by: Enjay at June 3, 2006 9:52 AM

Hi Alison- the boys are too cute. These days the number one bribe in my house is a penny for each page read, to be redeemed in the form of a trip to Toys R Us some time this summer (my girls are somewhat older).
I have a completely unrelated knitting question for you. I notice that you've used both Calmer and Cathay for various projects, and I was wondering, are they interchangable? I have about 9 skeins of Cathay (frogged from a disappointing project) and I keep finding patterns I like that call for Calmer. Any insight? Love your blog.

Posted by: Silvia at June 3, 2006 10:22 AM

Blame the Y chromosome.

Posted by: Ruth at June 3, 2006 12:10 PM

As a mother of a 9 year old LEGO king, when one of your boys does a Lego kit, do you take it apart and have the other boy build it?

Posted by: Leslie at June 3, 2006 1:39 PM

*giggle*

Posted by: Chris at June 3, 2006 3:04 PM

Have you elaborated elsewhere about your points system? My son is almost 2.5 and I always like input on how other people handle rewards, etc.

Posted by: Ingrid at June 3, 2006 5:35 PM

Yes, Ingrid. Check out this post. Hooray for Legos!

Posted by: alison at June 3, 2006 6:02 PM

Leslie, the boys do share the sets a lot. They really like building things, so the usual lifespan of a built Lego toy in our house is less than a day. Once one of them has built and rebuilt his super cool new thing a couple of times, usually he's okay with his brother building it. When they first started we bought duplicate sets, so both could build the same thing at the same time. But now that they're older (and we have about 15 sets!), we try not to get duplicates.

Posted by: alison at June 3, 2006 6:16 PM

They look so happy! And I agree with Ruth's comment.

Posted by: brooke Halsey at June 3, 2006 8:59 PM

Looks like they are learning about stashing from mom :)

Posted by: Karen at June 3, 2006 9:21 PM

Too cute! My 4, almost 5 year old son is wondering when you're going to have a Lego category?! He's always wanting to see all the Lego when you post about it. I think it's time the boy learned how to search the archives.

Sharon

Posted by: Sharon M at June 3, 2006 11:04 PM

You do know they make Lego waffles, right?

Posted by: Deb at June 4, 2006 8:43 AM

You know, Sharon, I was just thinking the same thing. Done!

Posted by: alison at June 4, 2006 10:11 AM

Yes, they do start young...they can't help it it's all that manly hormones fault...and they say woman are hormonal...:-P
I saw some Lego at Toys R Us that I want to get for my son... maybe I'll get it for him for Rosh Hashanah.

Posted by: Orli at June 4, 2006 3:52 PM

and it doesn't get any better, just be glad they're not comparing. . . . umm, never mind, lol.

we've been cleaning, and i keep tripping over itty bitty legos that the boys fling at each other (and theyr'e 11 & 13!)

Posted by: minnie at June 5, 2006 12:35 AM

My girls are constantly comparing (and fighting over) everything. The Legos may be one of the few things that they play well together with.

Posted by: Hilary at June 5, 2006 10:04 AM