Last month we took Adam to his first Lego Club Meeting. My parents watched Luke and Maggie, so Dave and I were able to spend some one-on-one time together with Adam.

The meeting had a Star Wars theme. The kids were broken in to groups by age and given a bin full of bricks to build a space vehicle with.

While the kids were building, a store employee walked around and asked them trivia questions about Star Wars. If they got their question right, they got a Lego minifigure. Adam correctly identified one of Anakin Skywalker’s children (with a hint from us, it helps to have a brother named Luke – he was a little disappointed to learn that Luke’s sister is named Leia, not Maggie).

After all the kids were done building, they gathered around a table and each child took a turn showing off their creation. Adam was the only one to re-purpose a Lego frying pan as a gun for his ship.

Each of the kids got a goody bag before they left. Adam got a Lego Star Wars t-shirt, a small Lego kit, and an R2-D2 key chain, in addition to the minifigure he got from answering his question.

They didn’t get to keep their creations, but we did let him fill a bucket from the pick-a-brick wall before we left. Dave, I mean Adam, also got a Lego kit of the Millennium Falcon before we left.

On our way to the Lego event, Adam was talking about all of the things you can make with Lego bricks. He named a few things and then said that they only thing you couldn’t make was a Leaning Tower of Pisa, because it would fall over. So it was pretty funny later, when we found one on display in the store.

There were a lot of fun displays to look at and Adam added a few things to his birthday wish list as we walked around.

We’ll have to miss the June Lego Club meeting, but we already have him signed up for the July one. He doesn’t know about it yet, but it’s a couple of days before his birthday and that month’s theme is Ninja Turtles. He’s asked me repeatedly if he can have a Lego Ninja Turtle birthday cake (a giant cookie cake to be more specific), so I am totally going to take the credit and tell him that the club meeting was special for his birthday. 🙂