Happy Birthday (Party), Tobin!

Tobin celebrated his 6th birthday at the Brooklyn Robot Foundry, learning about circuits, conductivity, and building box robots with his best friends. The activity did require the use of a Philips screw driver, general assembly skills, and lots (lots!) of custom embellishments. The finished robots could battle it out – or race each other – in the table “arena”. Delicious pizza and robot cake sealed the deal: Tobin said he had “the best day ever!”

On Tobin’s actual birthday (10/21), the four of us celebrated at home. Mika made all decorations for the cake, and an awesome Ninjago diorama gift that doesn’t photograph well since it’s lit up with LED finger flashlights. Sung’s parents visited the week after, for a weekend of epic Lego building and lots of time to play with the kids. Check out Tobin’s solutions for the examples “school house” and “kayak”, built from Lego Creationary pieces … his 3-D doodling has gotten much more advanced than his 2-D drawings.