Who knew...
that there would be such a thing as competitive LEGO assembling? And for all the times that I tried to discourage construction at table, in the dark back seat of car rolling down Hwy 41 after sundown, in the bathtub and just about everywhere else*, I am truly repentant. For I now am the mother of the current record holder at our local LEGO store. (3 minutes and 48 seconds, without consulting the instruction book) To think that I tried to discourage the little savant. The contest ends in 3 days - during which time he may return to the mall once a day to try to better his score. ...even if he doesn’t win the contest I think it did Edward a world of good to see that he left the other 3 kids working at his table to eat his virtual modular dust.

*Church. We held the line at church. There may have been attempts to smuggle blocks in various pockets, but at no time was anything assembled.