It's been almost a month since the party and Thomas has just about worked his way through all of the Lego sets. Honestly, he probably would have built them all that day, but we made him pace himself. And the new and exciting toys may have been used for attitude adjustments once or twice (in the sense that the Legos got put in "time-out" a few times)...
It's been amazingly effective!
Henry is still a bit problematic with the Legos, so I made them a space to live that Henry was unable to get to - which means on top of the mantle. I'm not sure Matt was entirely thrilled that his new minimalist plant display was swarmed by Lego sets, but he hasn't said anything.
First set that Thomas completed was the road work set. Very fitting for Alaska road trips in the summer...!
Then the police helicopter set. He loves watching the police and robbers Lego cartoon on Netflix, so this is actually one of his favorite sets. I love the attention to detail Lego puts into their sets - the ATM even has little Lego bills to put in the slot. How adorable!
The fire helicopter and motorcycle set seems to be Henry's favorite set to play with. This means I've gotten pretty good at repairing this set because Henry is not good at playing gently with the Lego sets...
This set is Thomas' favorite so far (and Matt's!). We got a package from Amazon shortly after the party that had no information about who sent it. As soon as I opened it, I knew it had to be from Matt's friend Tom - he sent him the Playmobil motorcycle set for his birthday last year. He had no idea we had a Lego theme going for the birthday this year, Tom's just that good. :)
This one was the most complicated set Thomas got for his birthday, so we figured once he had a few sets under his belt that he could tackle this one. It was challenging, but he still did a great job following the instructions and painstakingly pieced it all together.
And it was a good reminder of how observant he is. Before he even opened the set he was telling Matt he wanted to do this one because the window opened at the bottom, not the top like the helicopters. We had no clue what he was talking about. But we finally figured out he noticed from the picture on the box that the canopy in the front of the submersible was hinged on the bottom and not the top like the helicopters.
This boy misses nothing!
Finally on to the sets that I bought him. I love the Lego movie and was so excited about the double decker couch set. The only thing is was missing is Wild Style!
Thankfully, she was in the second Lego Movie set I got. As was another Emmet! This was great news on the "sharing the Legos with the younger brother" front. But my favorite part of this set was the rainbow spectrum of the lego bricks included in the set.
But what else would you expect from a set called Cloud Cuckoo Palace?? This was by far the most difficult set to put together because it had so many tiny pieces. It was very decorative, which meant a lot of the pieces where flat circles and if you got them in the wrong spot, they were super hard to get back up. And if they were a row off, they would interfere with the structure of the palace. Argh!
But he's powering through it and concentrating extra hard (see that tongue?)! I think it's safe to say we have quite the Master Builder on our hands! :)