One fine summer day (and evidently a pajama day), my two sons were happily playing with Legos together. Yes, together, and happily! THAT is the magic of Legos. Especially when you have 97,345,323 Legos. One Lego LESS than that amount, and they would NOT have had enough to share and get along.
After a couple of quiet hours (can I get a WOOHOO!) Connor & Noah came running downstairs, eager to show me their amazing Lego creations.
Connor showed me his modular design Lego rocket ship which could launch a separate rocket, all very technical, well thought-out and precise. VERY Connor.
Noah then showed me HIS Lego rocket ship. And I cracked up laughing when I saw it and I still crack up every time I see it.
Noah...well, you see, Noah built a party ship. A rocket ship full of Lego party people from an alien to a ninja to Darth Vader. No controls or modules and not really very technical or precise. But very social. And VERY Noah.
I'm pretty sure Connor's ship would have dominated Noah's in an epic galatic battle. But Noah's little gang would have at least had fun going down.
I hated babysitting when I was a kid, didn't know if I even wanted to have kids, then waited a long while to actually have kids, BUT I always knew that if I had kids I wanted to have boys. And sure enough, I LOVE these two boys crazy mad and they entertain and crack me up every single day (and of course, they also infuriate & irritate me and are stinky & dirty every day, too). And mostly what cracks me up is how radically different Connor & Noah are.
My ideal dream family was to have three boys, but it turns out I was wrong about that. Because along came Shelby, my little girlie. And she's extra awesome and not-over-the-top-girly because she carries around dinosaurs and Hot Wheels cars in her purses, and she loves snakes. I have a joke with Shelby that she's my favorite dress up toy to play with. I think having a girl after having two boys was extra fun, and I DID go extra wild with the girlie clothes and girlie hair clippies and girlie jewelry. Oh, and can you see her shiny blue toenails?? Squeeeee!
Recently, I found myself watching the Real Housewives of Miami (no judging! I just watch for the joy of palm trees and flowers!) and thought their newest cast member looked like Shelby. What do you think?
It's reasonable to assume that Shelby would resemble her. After all once upon a time, I looked very much like that hot babe on TV, too. See? A stunning resemblance, wouldn't you say?
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| Mindy Z - best roommate ever! |
UPDATE ONE HOUR LATER: I'm too vain. I couldn't leave that photo up without showing what I really looked like at 20. Maybe not as hot as that Miami chica, but hot enough. Albeit with very poofy red hair.
(By the way, that's me hard at work at the BEST JOB EVER - I worked as the receptionist at the USU Football players dorm. I actually was rarely in that office because I was usually out in the games area playing pool with the cute boys, all the while getting paid. Seriously, BEST JOB EVER.)
Oh, and for the record, I'm not sure how a post about Legos and boys morphed into photos of me at 20, so don't ask or try to figure it out. Just go with it.
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