Lego Mania!

Winter is a good time to play Legos inside and Ian is quite the builder! Below is the Republic Attack Gunship from the Star Wars series. The kit had 1,045 pieces and was recommended for 9 year olds and up. Ian built it himself!











There are doors that open and various compartments with things and Clone Troopers inside them.





One of the two pilots.









The Lego Shark. Carefully crafted and refined, it is constructed of premium corrugated cardboard and 3/4" masking tape. I was somewhat ashamed, though, that no duct tape was used.




The tapered right side serves as the handle, making this a right-handed model.





The patented Lego Shark logo. On the inside is written the kits we've built together (so far just the Republic Attack Gunship). More to come.

What amazes me is the things (usually spaceships) that Ian creates on his own. He's very inventive and his designs are original. In a future entry, I will present a second gallery of his work. The first one can be found in the entry dated March 9, 2008.

Ian Reading to His Little Brother

Ian has become quite the reader. At five and a half, he reads stories well and insisted that he read this one (A Birthday Cake for Ben by Beverly Randell and Genevieve Rees) to Colin. Ahhh, brotherly love...

Moon Ring

A beautiful moon ring appeared the other night in the skies above Maine. Few things about the night sky I like better. I brought the kids outside to see it. Colin said, "MOON!"

Happy Birthday Rick!

And many more!


With love,

Trenton, Steph, Ian and Colin

If At First You Do Not Succeed...

In the New Year...

...I will endeavor to write at least one entry per week on this blog!

There have been times when I have not written anything for weeks and weeks, I know!

One way to avoid the frustration of checking the site over and over (perhaps only to be disappointed) is to "subscribe" to the blog. Basically, instead of you going to it, it comes to you. That is, whenever there is a new entry that you have not seen before, it will notify you by e-mail. That way, you know there is something to see before you go there.

If you scroll down to the end of the page on the blog, you can click on "Subscribe." I recommend choosing Bloglines. Then just follow the instructions and whenever I post something new, you will be notified. Cool, huh?

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Ian's New Smile

Ian lost a tooth the other day (on the bottom up front) but he's still got a great smile! The Tooth Fairy will be back soon for the one right next door. Then we're going to enter him in the Leon Spinks Lookalike Contest!