Legos Save the Day

I had surgery yesterday. All seems well right now except I cannot do anything. I'm not supposed to do stairs (which means no laundry or cleaning up downstairs), lift anything heavier than a gallon of milk ( which means no getting Jake out of bed or into high chair) or anything remotely strenuous.

Many of you are thinking-- yippee! right about now-- but I feel worthless lounging on my bed while Greg does all the work. We have Christmas presents to put away and still have finishing touches to do on our kitchen (door handles and molding) as well as redoing our laundry room/ bathroom downstairs.

Setting all of that aside for a week, well, it just sends me over thee edge a bit.

Mostly, though, I was nervous about the boy being cooped up here in the house all day and going stir crazy.

Thankfully, someone created Legos, K'nex and Megabloks.

Blake has been busy building a roller coaster with his new K'nex set from Grandma and Grandpa.  It has track and cars and is extremely cool!

Andy is working on a Lego Creator set that designs three different treehouses. He has done it all by himself and is very proud of himself.

Noah built a Lego Superheroes set.

Jake has a Megabloks construction set. He likes to take it apart more than putting it together.

They all got along relatively well and had fun putting their creations together.  It made flying solo a little easier on Greg and made me feel a little less guilty about being an invalid for today!