The Force is With Him

Henry has moved on to a new obsession. No more trains (sad - since we own about 5,000 trains. Maybe Elliot will enjoy them in a few years). No more garbage trucks. No more Toy Story. These days, he is completely infatuated with...Star Wars. More importantly - Lego Star Wars.

Last year several of his friends started getting into Star Wars. Henry was very resistant - he wouldn't watch the movies since he thought they would be scary, so he didn't care about it very much. Then a few months ago Mike somehow finagled Henry into watching the first Star Wars movie (well, Episode 4 - you know what I mean) and Henry discovered his new passion. (As a side note - we did have to fast forward a lot of "Return of the Jedi" - Jabba the Hut is apparently very frightening).

He is specifically enamored of Storm Troopers and Droids (and, alas, their weaponry, which has caused some long conversations in this house). He spends all day building endless Star Wars vehicles with Legos:

(yes, he has really dirty fingernails - this is post T-Ball. But isn't the ship he built awesome??)

This one makes me laugh - I was in the kitchen doing something and he told me I was making too much noise and had to be quiet because his "stormtroopers were sleeping". I looked over, and he had made little Lego beds for all of them:

Let's all guess what his Halloween costume this year will be.....