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Since finding out my brother and sister in-law intended to come here for Christmas I've been excited; I don't see any of my family members in person much due to the great distances between where we all live. Being Christmas, it meant there'd be presents, but the best present of all was going to be spending time with my four year-old nephew again. 

We'd spoken on video chats about what we were going to do together, and Lego featured prominently; of course, there were several Lego presents under the Christmas tree for him and later on Christmas Day one got started. 

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It's a Lego City set containing a few mini-figures, a police car and ice cream van with an ice cream-shooting cannon on the top; the premise of the set is that a bank heist is happening perpetrated by the shady characters in the ice cream van who hook up an ATM and drag it away behind the van. Of course, the long arm of the Lego law is on hand to give chase. This afternoon, my nephew and I sat down to build it together and it was a really nice time of building, and then playing with, the Lego together. 

He was really funny because he has remembered everything I taught him back in May about building Lego and he was over-emphasizing them all knowing I'd be watching closely. Funny little kid. 

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The previous day I took him to my other house where I store some of my larger Lego builds and we played with them. What I didn't tell him was that they will all go to him when he is old enough to tackle those more complicated Lego Technic builds; they will all get dismantled, the parts sorted, and shipped to the little fellow so that he can enjoy them as I have. It's a few years off yet, he's only four after all, but the way he builds Lego, (he is amazingly good at it), it will be sooner rather than later. 

I build a lot of Lego, complex builds, and really enjoy it, but my Lego session with a difference was more enjoyable because I shared it with my nephew; we will do some more before he leaves - a lot more.
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Later in the evening we both had a video chat with my niece @smallsteps  who lives in Finland and it was funny seeing them interact together. She sent a video of herself later, on her sled in the snow, with a message for my nephew and I. She's so cute and funny; I must be the luckiest uncle ever.

I feel so glad to know that such great little kids will grow into adults and represent the family when the current generation is gone. They are both great treasures. 

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Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default; tomorrow isn't promised so be humble and kind - galenkp

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