I'm going to try not to word vomit too hard here.

I didn't do the lego exchange, but I proxied/watched over my son who did it. I figured it would be a good way to introduce him to doing something good with no expectation of anything back. Because that happens in exchanges. More often than we'd like to acknowledge.

So he took his allowance, picked out a gift for his giftee according to their wants and sent it off. Then we waited. His gifter contacted me with some questions pertaining to what did he have in the Technic set and to impart some knowledge about lego leagues that he can get into within the next few years. Then, I was told it would come Thursday or Friday.

It came today. There were a few boxes, mostly camping stuff and I had stupidly presumed that the big box was my sleeping bag and one of the smaller boxes was the Lego. I was so wrong. So very very wrong. I lost the first round of pictures to my aging HTC. So I had to recreate - with added cat instead of Banana - and then bring him back down. I had yanked him away from playing Plants Vs Zombies with a friend, but the moment he was done that round he was shutting things down and bolting for the Technic. Andrew is currently assembling it, alternating between singing - for some reason he's got Macklemore & Ryan, ceiling can't hold us in his head - or explaining to me how the pieces fit and why they fit that way as he builds.

I'm in for a long night thanks to Apsis and his/her amazing fantastic generosity. He's on the autism spectrum and his 'thing' is Lego and he's been coveting the technic set, obsessing with getting his hands on the moving/engineering parts to make things go and begging us to get it for him. I am forever in awe of you, and will likely curse you as I step on Lego tonight. Above and beyond, I will find some way to hunt you down so that he can send you a thank you letter to practice his writing like he's about to practice his engineering.