Six months later, I watch and observe. He will spread out his parts, look at the instructions, pick out his parts. Then he takes a pause and studies how he is going to assemble it. He is methodical and a little scary. I'm looking at the box (Y-Wing Starfighter) and it recommends ages 8 to 14. It would give me a headache assembling it now and no concept of what to do when i was his age.
In my day, I was assembling Gilbert erector sets, but at twice his age. Nuts, bolts, wrenches, gilders. I never had quite enough to do the projects I wanted.
I was shooting a video of him earlier assembling the LEGO, he wanted to see what I was doing. I showed him how to mount it on the tripod, turn on the camera and which button to push. This evening, he set it up himself and started taping himself.
I thought Jared was scary at five sitting in front of a PC, imitating his brothers and using the keyboard.
I guess the next time here I show him how to use iMovie to create his own film. What is really hitting me is not his expertise in building LEGOs, but that he will start Kindergarten in two weeks. Yes my eldest grandchild is starting school. We bought him his backpack and lunch pail (star wars of course) today and going for school shoes tomorrow.
Sigh.......................
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