I got a small Pelican box one time when ordering flashlights.  It is a really cool little box with a great latch.  About three months ago I started putting things in there at random for Isaac, usually some kind of little treat.  That got to be a problem because Isaac ALWAYS expected something.  We knew there was an issue when Isaac opened it up and found nothing inside and told Bianca "There's nothing in there."

We now put gummy vitamins in there, but on occasion we still drop a treat in the blue box.  Here is an especially awesome reaction:

So yesterday Bianca arrived at school to find that Isaac and two friends had lined up five outdoor chairs in a row.  They were making train sounds.  When they all got on Isaac turned to the two friends and told them "they were going to see the Big Guy, Santa".  A few minutes later he told them they were on the Polar Express.  I guess this is what happens when you start reading Christmas books while the air conditioners are still in the window (though they are coming out this weekend).

Second story is a bit funnier.  Isaac was riding in the back of the car playing peek a boo with his mommy in the rear view mirror.  He is under the impression that if he covers his eyes he can't be seen.  So mommy tells him she can smell his stinky feet (which he does have, BTW).  Isaac, then, figured out a way out of this little problem.  He told his mommy: "No stinky foot, in sneakers."

This past Sunday Isaac and Dad both woke up with a lego itch.  We had long talked about getting a tower up to the ceiling fan in the Sun Room, but on Sunday we decided to walk the walk inside of talk the talk.

This was a true collaborative effort.  Dad showed Isaac how to stack piece and then once the stacks were big enough and plentiful enough, Dad joined them together and the put them on the base of the tower.

We worked like this for about an hour until we were finished.  Isaac and Dad are proud to present the tallest Lego tower we have ever built, standing around 7 1/2 feet tall when you remove it from the lego table itself:

It actually went into the fan blades themselves.  Surprisingly it was pretty sturdy, but Isaac was so fascinated by it he refused to play anywhere else.  After a few beep beep accidents at the base of the tower, Dad decided to take it down.  Good thing too because it was HEAVY.

Here is the cool thing though, as tall as this was, the real Burj Khalifa is much, much taller, even proportionately speaking (go watch the video, it is really awesome and bombastic with a ridiculous fireworks show at the end, RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME!).  If the Burj Khalifa was reduce to Lego scale (i.e. minifig scale) it would still be 66 feet tall.  That is WAY taller than this baby was.