As I’m working on catching up with the blog posts, I realize that I need to make a quick Honorable Mention post to acknowledge Andy’s master-level Lego skills.

If you’ll recall in the last post, I mentioned how excited Andy was about immersing himself his niece and nephew’s Lego collections over Christmas. Yes, much of the Lego building time was spent with the kids, but if we’re being honest, he was rustling through those bins independently more often than not. I’m told that when he was little he rarely went anywhere without his tackle box full of Legos organized by color and size in each compartment. I think he’d still do that if he could get away with it.

Anyway, by the time we left Spearfish Andy had completed his finest creation yet: a scale model of the Turtle! It’s incredible, especially considering the fact that he was working with a limited supply of bricks, as all the more standard pieces had gone to building the Christmas train. So it was easier said than done, but still he got it done.

Check it out!

The doors even open and the hood raises up. It’s so cool.

A special thanks to Ellie and Will for letting their uncle plunder their Lego collections, even going so far as to take the tires off of Ellie’s new Lego VW Bug to complete the project. 🙂

After the build, he itemized all the pieces so down the road he can order them in all the right colors and build a true-to-life Turtle.

I guess this is what happens when a full-blown Legomaniac grows up to be an engineer.