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FIRST Lego League Field Trip Extravaganza

Once a month Owen’s school has an early release day where they get out at 12:15pm. Today was the day.
Owen and four of his friends are preparing to compete in FIRST Lego League this November. Because of their early release, Owen’s dad helped arrange two tours for the boys related to FLL. Ed, the dad […]

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FLL Bridge

Owen had a lot of homework tonight so we got to Lego League at about 5pm. Part of their models is a long, fairly complex bridge. It’s done, although it’s not lining up correctly on the Lego mat. Tonight the boys figured out the problem together and fixed it. I’d call it a successful night!

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Bikes, FLL & scouts, and art

Owen rode his bike to school for the first time today! He did a great job, and was really proud when he was parking it at the school’s bike rack.
After I dropped him off I ran from job to job, finishing just in time to pick him up at the end of the day. We […]

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Saturday update

Owen and I went to Toys ‘R’ Us this morning, so he could “get some ideas for his birthday”, which is October 28. Like he needs any more ideas of things he’d like to get. (He’s often updating his Wish List at Amazon.com). These days he bypasses most of the store, mainly looking at Lego […]

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LEGO Star Destroyer

Owen’s been into Star Wars Legos for about two years now.
Last October, on his birthday, he got the LEGO Star Destroyer. It’s huge. We worked on it a long time, but as we’d recently done several other big LEGO projects, somewhere along the way we lost steam before finishing it.
The last few days we’ve been […]

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