As a parent there are few joys as pleasing to experience as those of a child achieving some major milestone of development: the first smile, first words, first steps, etc. To any self-respecting engineer, scientist or incurable child geek, all of these pale in comparison to the mother of all firsts:
THE FIRST LEGO CREATION BUILT FROM SCHEMATICS
Riesling achieved this momentous accomplishment today, using instructions from the small LEGO set (#6801-Rocket Sled) that was one of my first as well. She had the additional difficulty of needing to find the pieces from the thousands of mixed lots that constitute our LEGO fortune. I did help her with locating the correct pieces because I felt this was a somewhat daunting task for the novice builder.
Both Cashel and Riesling have always enjoyed making crazy and sometimes out of this world creations, and now I am looking forward to them also learning to read and interpret the detailed schematics that typically accompany most LEGO sets. NOTE: I tried to encourage Cashel with his project but in the end he was more interested in running around (see photo). I’m sure he’ll acheive this milestone in due time as well 
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I see it now. I read the post and looked at the pic before and did not realize that she was holding it. Good job, Riesling!
Hey Gleamer!
I tagged you over at my blog, for a meme. Don’t worry…it’s a fun one…and I think you’ll get WHY I tagged ya!
http://laughingdancing.blogspot.com/2009/01/urban-dictionary-meme.html