Legos Legos Everywhere!!!

So today was a big day for the boys.  Legos are so much fun for them but about 4 months ago they chose to put them away to play with their Playmobil collection instead.  We do not allow both of these sets out at one time because there are SO MANY pieces!  Last week they asked to trade out for the Legos.  After a week of cleaning and finding all the tiny pieces of Playmobil, today was the day to pull out the Legos again.

The boys played most of the morning.  It was a good day for this change as it was also Lego Day at our local library.  The library has a VERY large collection that is shared with about 50 children!  We have gone to this event a couple of times but it had been a while since the last time.

We learned from Edward that you have to show up early or you don't get to play with the good stuff!  For instance, today only Sean got a body for his Lego man.  I had no idea there was such a demand for playing with Legos!

AND the boys were not the only ones interested in building with them.  Michael, along with several other dads, sneaked a few Legos themselves to create little cars and such!  I think Michael was surprised (and maybe a little confused) by some of the newer parts.  He really enjoyed the time with his boys!

Brendan was a little confused when the time was over and he could not bring his creation home, but we convinced him that we would be back to play again.

We also had the joy of shopping for our new 4H project-Robotics.  This was supposed to be junk drawer robotics but I found that we did not have a lot of this stuff in our junk drawer, so it cost us about $70 for our 'junk!'  Check my 4H blog next week to see how we used it all!

The best part of the day was when Michael came home and grilled up an awesome dinner of pork steaks and sweet potatoes.  He even found a butternut squash in our dilapidated garden and I added a homemade coleslaw to the meal.  Nice and simple but delicious!

While he was at the grill, he added some brats (a nice meal for next week that can be pulled out of the freezer) and some bacon (if you have never grilled bacon, try it...so good!).  The bacon will be used for our adventure we are taking tomorrow.  I will keep it a secret to encourage you to come back and read the blog.

The best part of the day...all but one of the boys are in bed early and we can enjoy a quiet evening.  I am sure it will be spent staring at Zaira and cooing over her.  Wouldn't you know Henry took advantage of the situation and grabbed up Zaira first...but I could not resist taking a picture of these two together!  I hope they remember this when they are older.  Definitely a bonding moment!