Legos have become a daily past time in our house. Austin has finally gotten pretty good at putting them together or pulling them apart (they used to be just a source of frustration) and enjoys making all kinds of things. Mommy also is often asked (or told, but we are working on that) to make things...make a pool, make a house, make Austin's bed...pretty much anything he can think of or often having to do with things we have been doing lately.
Usually we make cars, towers, DVD players, couches, outside, flowers...anything that we encounter in daily life. He also has been wanting to make people lately...which usually is 2 or 3 Legos on top of each other, depending on the person's height, with the appropriate top lego for hair color (black for T aiyi, brown for mommy etc). He makes all the people you would expect, all of our family and relatives, friends he plays with, babysitters who come here. Then last week CHris was playing with him and he said "Make Gilpin Shu Shu". Gilpin shu shu? We assume he was referring to our family friend Gilpin Brown, who took family pictures for us in January. But he met him one time and I am pretty sure we had not talked about him or referred to him...but Austin remembered.
He also began differentiating between Carolina blue and Duke blue with the Legos...so we made a "pool" with Carolina blue, but we couldn't use any of the Duke blue for the pool. It has been a good teaching lesson :)
Duke blue vs. Carolina blue
He also has started to get abstract. The other day he said "Make Great is They Faithfulness". Hmmm. I finally made a "G" and an "F" out of Legos to represent it. And then he wanted to make God. It took awhile to (very inadequately I am sure) explain why we don't see God and that He is a Spirit and doesn't have a body. Then he said "make spirits" which I proceeded to try and explain that you don't see a spirit. Then he wanted me to make the fruits of the spirit...so we made some representative fruit for love, joy etc. It is a great exercise in creativity and also a challenge. He still gets frustrated with it at times when he can't get them together or apart the way he want, but it is a great activity.
3 comments:
Wait until you guys visit the states again, and Austin discovers all of the space Legos and castle Legos that are in Grandpa and Nai Nai's attic!! Chris and I used to play with tons of Legos as kids.
I'm curious if Austin made "Uncle Jason" out of Legos? How would he make my glasses?
I miss you guys! Why can't you live next door to us here? i could even find you a first floor place so you would not have to deal with the no elevator thing!
I want to come visit! My fiance, Ed has to go to China several times a year, to Xi'an. Is that close?
Jen
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