Heroes

The little Lego guy was supposed to be a birthday present from my parents. (Legos for grownup birthdays are a long-running in-joke in my family.) Orion couldn’t wait to get his hands on it.

We spent half an hour before bed putting it together. I was worried it would be too complex for Orion (who is still on Duplos) but he was really good at decoding the instructions. These Bionicle/Hero things don’t snap together like regular Legos, they are more of a ball-and-socket affair. They are also more dimensionally-complex than firetrucks or whatever — they articulate on three planes.

He made up a really fun story about this guy. He’s scary but a good guy, “a scary protector like a dragon.” This is our usual line about fierce creatures, including real ones (e.g. snakes, cops). Like Orion’s dragon kite, he protects the house from “ghosts and monsters,” his go-to bad guys (along with pirates).