Free Range Learning: Stacking with Mega Blocks

Hooray for getting our internet back! Its been a wireless week around here, and I think some people in this house were about to start gettin' crazy. So what have we been up to? Well, if you're one-years-old in this household, you have been declaring war on bedtime and developing an OBSESSION with your parents' cell phones, and when your great-grandmother calls you steal the phone and run away with it, shrieking in a dialect nobody can understand. And also, you have been developing a fascination with Mega Blocks.

Collin got his Mega Blocks for his first birthday, and boy, are they swell. They're like legos for one-year-olds. Big, brightly colored, not in the least complicated. Collin didn't really know what to do with them at first, so for a while, he would just wait patiently through my, "See how Mommy stacks the blocks? See? See? Like this! See???" until I gave up and he'd unceremoniously dump them all over the floor. They would stay like that until we began sliding all over the living room on them, like little multicolored plastic banana peels. Then, when Collin wasn't looking, I would stuff them all back in their nifty little Mega Bag and forget about them until Collin came toddling over to me, hauling them one way or another. Like Santa Claus, with a bag almost the size of his body, but filled with bricks. It's pretty hilarious.

Mega Blocks come with this rad little wheely contraption that you stack on. In case you feel like wheeling a teetering tower across the room.

Have respect, ya'll.

This was the first time Collin actually stacked the blocks himself . It's a proud day.

Tada!

We're very excited about our Mega Blocks.

Since Collin is such a big boy now, stacking blocks all by himself and all, he wanted to wear his (ADORABLE) back pack. Another first birthday gift that I love.