Everything is awesome!*

William has designed and built his very own Lego city. It's a seaside town currently featuring a fairground, police station, hospital, church, school, baseball field, helipad, Mexican restaurant, ice cream parlor, and a Starbucks (a local government stipulation). There is also a supermarket cutely named Will-Mart. A fire station and a city park are planned for phase 2 of construction which is scheduled to begin just as soon as a few more base plates are delivered.

Velma Staplebot!

I am absolutely loving my child's current obsession with all things Lego. In fact, the day we struck gold and scored the Lego The Movie mini figure Velma Staplebot (thus completing our William's series 12 collection), I may have been more excited than him. For the uninitiated, these mini figures are sold in packets you cannot see through. In other words, a clever collect-them-all lottery-style marketing ploy. At $2.99 each ($3.99 in Toys R Expensive) you keep buying them until you have, well, collected them all, doubtless acquiring many 'doubles' along the way. Or, you get smart and figure a way to work the system. You can stand in  stores 'feeling packets' for tell tale signs of particular characters or you can meet a seasoned pro who tells you about 'bump codes'. Done and done! (You may add 'standing in stores feeling packets' to the growing number of things on my 'wow if they could only see me now' list.) 

Frequent customers include Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare. 

* Everything is Awesome is the Lego the Movie theme song.