Over the weekend, we had a few overnight camping guests. At sunset on Sunday night, one of the adults accidentally overturned two tubs filled with Legos. In doing so, the collections of two boys' Legos dumped into a sprawling, singular mix in the grass (wet from recent rains).
If
you know anything about Legos, you know they are a big deal to young boys.
Mixing sets together is sacrilege. Upon hearing about the mishap, one of the
boys, a six-year-old, grabbed a hat with headlamps and set out to retrieve his
Legos from the pile. To make sure he gathered his collection of pieces, he
assembled from memory three toys he has constructed from the collection.
I
and several adults offered to help and suggested he could wait until morning
light. “I will get them now,” he insisted. The boy worked constantly for the
better part of two hours without so much as looking up. His focus was
extraordinary. In the end, he retrieved all of his Legos from the mess.
Impressive stuff. Few adults could have managed what he did.
—Mitchell Hegman
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