Just Comes Natural

August 25th, 2007

As a child, a friend of mine (my Attorney) and I were in the local paper for building a sprawling Lego city across my rumpus room.

This morning, my son continued the legacy, by winning a bring-your-own-Lego(tm) Transformer(tm)-construction competition.

The Asheville Citizen-Times wrote it up nicely.

HENDERSONVILLE – For Noah McWhirter, building Lego figures just comes natural.

“I just build things with my wild imagination,” the 10-year-old Vance Elementary School fourth-grader said. “I don’t even think about them. I just make them.”

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Of course, I think part of the winning strategy was bringing The Intimidator Professional-Grade Toolbox, when most kids had some flimsy Tupperware or burlap sack. Bonus points for packing it to the gills with 1970s-era Lego(tm), inherited from dear ol’ dad.

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4 Responses to “Just Comes Natural”

  1. 1 peter royal
    August 26th, 2007 at 1:28 am

    wow, awesome! go noah!

  2. 2 Ann McWhirter
    August 26th, 2007 at 6:34 am

    We are so impressed with our grandson. Way to go, Noah!

  3. 3 Paul Browne
    October 9th, 2007 at 4:18 am

    It’s a slippery slope - Lego is well known as a gateway to serious addictions such as Open Source Java, App Servers and Rule Engines :-)

    Paul

  4. 4 Riley McWhirter
    January 23rd, 2008 at 8:04 am

    Hey!
    That’s my nephew’s name!
    We live in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada!
    And its spelled the same way.
    Where are you from ( the McWhirter’s in this blog)?
    Thanks!
    Uncle Riley

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