Not surprisingly, Ethan likes to build stuff. He likes his Lego and enjoys tearing it apart to put together again.

He did have some problems and was frustrated a few times. He can’t read well yet, but he showed me this picture on the back of the instruction book and said that the big WIN! word at the top reads “I have Lego problems!”. I guess he took the boy’s expression to be one of frustration.

Awhile ago we had to put together an Ikea folding couch/bed. I asked the Bud to help out and he jumped to the task. Ikea furniture constuction is really just like advanced Lego. The instructions are similar, no words, just illustrations of what goes where. He helped put this bed by looking at the parts and instructions (reading instructions… he is still young. He’ll learn to ditch those soon enough). I did the lifting, but he did a lot of the work of putting parts in place and tightening the bolts!