A LEGO® GRANDFATHER’S STORY
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I am 81 years old and a very active agent with many interesting relationships in my life. None have been more interesting or challenging than the relationships I have developed with two of the most creative people in my life, my two grandsons, and the hobby that we have shared building LEGO sets together.
Our relationship is not unlike the one my dad formed with me when I was a kid in the 1926 era, when we would build model airplanes out of balsa wood.
Both Ryan, my oldest grandson (now 14), who together with me has built multiple LEGO models and is now into working with robots, and my youngest grandson, Sean (7), who has been building with me since he was 4, enjoy our working/building relationship. Sean and I recently completed building the LEGO Racers Ferrari F1 set and are now spending the weekend hours we have together building the LEGO Cargo Plane, with the Cargo Ship next on our list.
I was in the Navy in the South Pacific in the mid ‘40s during WW2, and building that huge model will provide me an opportunity to share some sea stories about my ship and my travels throughout the South Pacific (the old man's "sea stories" we have all heard about, and I have quite a few).
LEGO building has meant a lot to me, and the memories of the building challenges that the three of us have had, and that Sean and I still have every time we sit down to work on a new model, will probably always be around. Building with LEGO bricks sure is a lot of fun for this old guy! |
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