Team lego

This morning I told Sag to pick something I could work with him on, whatever he wanted. His first choice was carve his pumpkin, which, cringe, I could not do. The pumpkins were immovable at that point for a couple of reasons and were not in a location where carving could take place comfortably.

Unfazed, he then chose working on his costume. So we set about looking in the dress up chest, my closet and dresser, the craft shelves, and the linen closet, for materials which would come together as "ghost". As luck would have it, we came up with some very workable pieces. We're going to test it out tonight after dusk to see whether the effect passes his critical eye.

Then we moved on to legos. He wanted to collaborate on a Star Wars-style fighter jet and the only rule was that we always had to agree :-) I asked him to describe the characteristics of a fighter jet---a deficit in my knowledge base.

• wings
• cockpit
• pilot
• guns

I observed how symmetrical fighter jets are in their construction, how challenging it was for me to build something with legos that was not a building-type structure, and we truly worked together to figure out how to mesh our three (Gem asked to join and Sag graciously agreed) sections together to create a final and stable object.