Our Latest Hobbies

We go through stages of fun around here.  Dude latches on to hobbies and inhales every aspect of said subject.  Each area of interest lasts for a few months before we move on to the next latest and greatest. We've worked our way through Angry Birds, Magic School Bus, Word Girl, Wild Kratz and now it's Legos.  All Dude's sets have been moved into his bedroom where his little sister no longer has access to his prized possessions.  Our little man will spend hours upon hours building creations I don't know that I could construct without his experise.  He follows directions like nobody's business and makes sure every last detail is perfect.  He now claims he will be a Lego architect when he grows up.  We don't doubt it.

 This rad helicopter is part of a set from our cousins D and Hudson.  Pretty awesome.  We're missing the third blade, but he rolled with that exclusion just fine. 

This is what our bed looks like on mornings Tim and I refuse to get up until 7:00am.  This was an hour's worth of ship, tower and machine building from our little rascals.  They lined them up over our heads and we faked a deep sleep.  

Next new hobby is reading.  A switch went off in our Dude's head and he's reading up a storm. Everywhere we go he's dissecting signs, store names...anything he can catch a glimpse of.  This makes for confusion in the car as we often have no idea what he's trying to say.  Most of the time he's just reading and not attempting to converse at all.  It's fascinating to watch his little mind click with stuff we do without thinking.  This has also changed the way Tim and I converse.  No longer are the days when we can spell stuff out with secret parent code.  Busted immediately.  The book below is our recent favorite night time read.  If you have a kiddo around this age, check it out.  The sequel is due out any time now.

My favorite aspect to this new love and understanding of the written word?  See below.  And melt my freakin' heart.