Lego Play

Nowadays, J loves to play with his Duplo Lego because he can build a tall building and mimic a lift going up and down in the building.

Photo taken on 22 Mar 2017.
This structure was built by J.
The orange block mimic a
"lift moving up and down".

I still remember how he first played his megablocks almost 3.5 years ago - For 1.5 years, it was just 4 red megablocks and 8 blue megablocks. For 2.5 years, he just did "open and close lift doors" on the 4 red megablocks and 8 blue megablocks, which we never fail to bring these whenever we went out.

We introduced Duplo Lego when J was 2.5 years old but he was not interested at all. He would go back to play with his megablocks.

His 4 red megablocks and blue megablocks.
After 2.5 years of playing megablocks,
he had moved on to include other megablocks in his play.

We have come a long way! Early last year, his dad modeled a HDB building (different structure from the photo) with a "lift" that allowed him to move it up and down. That stirred his interests. His dad even build 5 characters from the Lego and introduced them as characters to stay in the different levels. He did all these for several weeks.

At first, J would scream for us to help him build the structure whenever he wanted to play the "lift" on the Duplo Lego building. Only in recent months this year, that J started to build with his Duplo Lego.

Therefore, to see J, being able to build the Lego block upwards, is a very great achievement and to see him, being able to build buildings in many different styles and patterns, I can't help feeling emotional. It is as if we have won't first prize in a contest!