i do all my own blogs: lego's at the library

we've been spending a lot of time at the library this month since they have the summer reading program. usually once a week we go for a special event and then several other times a week to pick out new books and turn in hayden's reading log and pick up his prizes.
we almost missed out on the event hayden wanted to go to the most, the lego building event. you have to register for each event the week before. when we went into the library to register, it was already full. luckily, the librarian told us she knew of at least one person that wouldn't be coming so she put us in the book.
they called to tell us to bring around 50-60 legos. dave and hayden decided he would build a castle and they put a big bucket of lego's that he would need together. it turns out that the lego event wasn't exactly what we had expected and a few tears came with it.
it turned out to be a lego building challenge. they had the kids separated by age groups but they still all competed against each other. they were told they could only have 50 legos, so we had to count out 50 of the pieces he thought he would need/want. the librarian would tell the kids what they needed to make and then tell them how much time they had. some things were a ridiculous amount of time like 1 or 2 minutes. the kids at hayden's table (the youngest kids) were not happy with this. hayden had a lot of castle type pieces which didn't help in some of the challenges.
hayden is very precise. when told to build the tallest tower, he couldn't simply just stack legos on top of each other to make it as tall as possible. he wanted to build a good sturdy and good looking tower. so in the end, he basically had nothing built. at one point he started crying and said "i'm NEVER going to get a medal!" as they were passing out 2 medals for each challenge.
one of the challenges was a BLINDFOLDED challenge in which they had to build a cube in 1 or 2 minutes. yeah...that one certainly wasn't the favorite over at our table!!! eventually hayden calmed down a bit and he even ended up winning the robot challenge. he was so happy to get a medal!
talan sat in his stroller the whole time and played pretty quietly with his own legos.
in the end, all of the kids got a goodie bag filled with legos, lego candy and lego stickers. they even gave one to talan.
hayden ended up having a DECENT time, but i know he wished he could have just built the castle that he had come intending to build. i must say, his adjustment skills are getting a bit better.

the blindfold challenge. they had to build a cube with no pieces sticking out. hayden didn't even have any pieces stuck together because he couldn't get it perfect: