Last night, Nathaniel threw a fit that it was time for bed. He wasn’t ready – he had plans to build a submarine with Zach’s Legos! He begrudgingly got in bed and informed everyone that would listen that he was going to build a submarine when he woke up.
Fast forward to this morning…
When I came downstairs, Nathaniel held up his completed submarine that he designed himself and showed it to me. It’s really creative!!!!
He put a windshield in the front and a propeller in the back!
Here’s what he had to say about it when I asked him to tell me about his submarine:
“I build dat part, den dat part. I put wings on, but den, I know submarines don’t have wings. That (the little gray crank sticking out of the tan square piece) the start fing so that I tan start it up! It dive down in da water. It doze under water and doze, “Zoom zoom!” (more sound effects and gestures to demonstrate moving quickly) and that’s how it doze! I donna pway wif it and help it swim and help it not mate bad tsoices.”
We didn’t even know that he was familiar with submarines or understood how they work!
Wonderfully creative. A streamlined compact submarine, so that it goes underwater, AND comes back to the top of the water. With a windshield to keep the water off the people – yes. And a propeller – yes. (I have to be careful not to give away any secrets from the submarine Navy.) Thanks for the explanation of the construction, young man.
A retired bubblehead
Very impressive and actually the wings are correct to a point – submarines actually have little wings that help them “fly” through the water. N is an amazing 3 year old heck he is just plain amazing.