My Very First...

LEGO Build! That's right, my fiance's dastardly plan has finally worked...I'm hooked on LEGO. It's always been a fun thing to do, but I never really got into building until after I read Jonathan Bender's book: Lego, A Love Story. It's a fantastic memoir and I actually identified with his wife on more than one occasion (i.e. her perspective on how babies and "grown up" LEGO bricks shouldn't really mix).

Aaron and I are going to BrickFair LEGO Fan Festival this Saturday and I am so excited! It'll be so much fun watching him freak out over all the amazing LEGO builds and I'm excited to see what I can find that really interests me there too. Right now I really love the Atlantis sets. They speak to the little kid inside who has always been a lover of the ocean and really any kind of water adventure...think Little Mermaid crossed with 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and you've got a 9-year-old version of me!

My very first LEGO build was super-tiny but I did it all myself and it was the first piece of Atlantis we bought. It's this little squid guy evil character and took me about 10 minutes, but it's all mine!















And so what did we do today? Went to Toys R Us of course...to buy more LEGO sets! This is the one that I'm building...its a pretty big jump from what I did last night!











Wish me luck!