The Builder

.... is he.





And today he turned EIGHT. Eight years ago, I was 21 and my little boy was a squishy beautiful ball of flesh in my arms.



He wants to be a builder (on the days he does not want to be a circus boy, or Spy, or pizza chef...) and fell in love with this kit a while ago, so of course, for the boy that never asks for a thing, it was the perfect gift. It really was! All day from pre-birthday breakfast to the chill of sundown he has been inside and outside building up the first house. Although modified to suit himself. Like all good builders. Especially ones who are eight and can see in their mind's-eye a better way to do things :)









There are always better ways to do EVERYTHING for Isaac. Quicker ways, faster ways, meandering ways, longer ways, backward ways, secret ways..... but chiefly, His Own Way. He has a very sure sense of his self. He tells me that if his body tells him not to do something, he will not. Can not. Like eat mushrooms, or slide down the Death Slide, or go for a walk when his Beano book calls, or zip down a zip wire, or wear anything other than PJ's until lunch time.... He tells me there is no point in my trying to convince him of another way because he is sure his way is right for him. How did it only take him eight years to know himself so well?







Keep on your own path sweet boy. Happy Birthday Isaac!



The building kit was bought from Hawkins, and also is available from Holz Toys. My dh bought it one lunch time last week and a work friend saw it and thought it was the best thing ever, I wish you were my dad! he said to my dh. :lol We ALL had many turns with it today, it is highly addictive. The cool thing is you submerge the bricks in water and the 'cement' melts away so you can build everything up again. A Boy Toy if ever there was one.