Thursday, July 15, 2010

Day 194: Legos and new toys

The day before we left I took the kids to the park the entire day while the movers were packing and loading the truck.  I ended up with a terrible sunburn that is still bothering me.  After he park we went to my friend’s house where we planned to stay before we left.  Her husband has a Lego hobby so I took some photos of the kids playing with Cecily’s toys and some fun photos of Legos.

Cooper  filled the handheld basket and then put it in the shopping cart.  I especially like the scientist goggles to do grocery shopping.  (I missed the focus on this because Charlotte was trying to sit on my lap.

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Charlotte had to use both as well, but she carried one and pushed the other.DSC_8617_edit

Caren was showing me her roomba and Cooper didn’t think it was cleaning the floors well enough so he chased it around with the toy dirt devil.

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We wanted to take a photo of all three kids together and this was the best I got.  Cooper was watching TV and Cecily was going after the dog.DSC_8659_edit

I am astounded by the level of detail Richard puts into his hobby.  He is building a city that has a railroad that goes around it and under the city.  He makes it modular so he can move the different buildings separate from one another.  I should not have shot as wide open as I did, but this house was incredible, as were the cars/buses in front of it.  The inside of the house even appeared to be built up with kitchen counters and furniture.

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The castle was also super impressive.  You can see how the train goes above and below the city.DSC_8634_edit

And for fun, ‘Lego macro’.  These are the flowers ‘growing’ on the hillside of the castle.DSC_8645_edit

A chest sitting on the fireplace mantle.DSC_8643_edit

Books on the fireplace mantle, also with the ability for a train to go through them.DSC_8642_edit

Toy Story!  There was even dynamite legos for Prospector and I love the little alien lego man.  The kids ran off with Buzz, so I couldn’t include him in the photo.  Again I probably shouldn’t have shot as wide open so that everything was in focus. The photo was a little crooked because I still can’t hold my camera straight, despite the gridlines in the view finder and I have no idea how to straighten the photo in paint.net.DSC_8647_edit

1 comment:

Niffer said...

Wow! That city is impressive. Crazy!

I love the picture of Cooper helping to vacuum. It's funny that he thought it wasn't doing a good enough job.