The Best Things in Life Are Free (or at least inexpensive)

At a garage sale last summer, I purchased giant Lego blocks for Logan. For his birthday he received some very colorful wooden blocks. He has nesting blocks and while we have been out about I have tried him to get to "build" with a variety of materials. He has been totally disinterested with the whole thing. He has just wanted to knock everything over and run around. Tonight, while I was preparing our dinner I noticed he was using the tomato paste and crushed tomato cans to build. All the time spent on those other materials and he is fascinated by some cans! It just reminded me that sometimes (usually) we don't need the fanciest or best thing to make us happy. We can be quite content with what "building materials" we have around us. He was REALLY enjoying playing with the tomato cans. I was nervous he would drop one on his little toes, but he was very careful.
He was being so gentle with his cans. He really wanted to make this tower as tall as he possibly could.
"Uh-oh." That tower was not to be.
Okay now it is time to try again.
Logan takes a step back to marvel at his own work.
I didn't believe he would be able to make this "tower" stay up, but it did! He definately has some mechanical ability. So if you are looking for some gift ideas for Logan in the future you can skip Toys R Us and just raid your kitchen pantry. He also greatly enjoys cardboard boxes and plastic containers.