Lego

This June holidays, Baby1 and Baby2 have been spending days playing with their Lego happily. Woohoo! Playing Lego is definitely much much better than playing DS the whole day, hmph!!!

Over the years, Papa has been buying Lego for the girls at every opportunity – when he is overseas and the rates are so much cheaper; as “pre”, “during” or “post” holiday gifts when we go travelling; when there’s super big discounts off local prices, etc. He has always bought Lego Friends FOR the girls, but I always suspects that he bought the Lego more for himself, wahaha!

Recently, in order to fully utilise our expiring Krisflyer Miles, (sniffs), Papa realised that we could redeem Lego with our Miles, woohoo! And so we got 2 more Lego cars. And then he found a super good deal for a 1,500 pieces box, and now we have got MORE Lego bricks, wahaha…

Baby1 and Baby2 do not really like playing Lego actually. We have 2 big boxes of their Lego Friends houses, pizza shop, ice cream shop, campervans, cars, cruise ship etc but they hardly play with them much. I think it is because they do not like to dismantle these beautiful builds or find having to build them from scratch again very cumbersome. At Granny’s house however, both girls can spend hours quietly building random objects out of just a handful of bricks. Hmm….

With the new Lego bricks, Baby1 and Baby2 have been building random structures now. Baby1 seems to enjoy building “proper things” like faces, house, trees etc while Baby2 likes to do “categorized things” like a tall structure made up of similar 2×1 bricks, a collection of “drain” tiles, or a display of all the hair accesories (sorted by colour). Again, it is a reminder that our 2 girls are unique individuals, no comparing please.

We are currently having our very own Lego Masters Singapore Challenge with all 4 of us each having 1 win under our belts. We have previously watched some Lego Masters on TV and were all wowed by the creativity of those contestants. Who says Lego is only “masak masak” for kids?! It takes lots of skills and creativity to create amazingly beautiful builds of asthetics, technical ability and story-telling and is by no means any easy feat even for adults!

I am happy that Baby1 and Baby2 enjoy building and playing with Lego now. It stretches their imagination and gets them to observe and think. I do think that building with Lego trains them to think and create creatively, more so needed when the future of work may be very different from what we are used to now.

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