My son finished knex project (pics)

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Sorry so big. can't shrink them right now.
My son finished his knex spiral coaster. he has been working on it for one month. I still can't believe he did it.
Nothing like having your 5 year old outsmart you.






He is making this one by only looking at these two pages. I don't get it at all.

I remember when I was his age eleven years ago. I always built those Star Wars lego sets. One time, I made a cube with legos. I had it for seven years. I still draw cubes obsessively. He has very good spacial intelligence and building skills. If he ever shows an interest in computers, robots would be the perfect field for him.

Wow!

That's awesome! I want some!

That looks like fun, can I come round and play, pretty please

what an amazing little man he is! Kuddos to this man!

WOW! And he's, do I remember this right, 5?

WOW!

He's only 5? That's amazing!

He turned five last month.

His dad was a math major and is a computer programmer. He got it all from his dad!

I seriously tried to help him and couldn't. My five year old kicks my behind at this kind of stuff. He also can do it for hours. He would rather do that stuff than play outside or ride his bike any day.

He chose to do the next knex activity from a book that doesn't provide detailed instructions. I walked in a yesterday and saw this (seen in the middle picture). It didn't have step by step directions like the big roller coaster and he was still able to see what needed to be done.

I can't even park straight

He enjoys putting things together more than actually playing with the finished item. He is already looking at the roller coaster and is trying to figure out other ways to make the roller coaster different. He finished the roller coaster three days ago and started the new project.

Holy cow, go little guy, go!

AWESOME!! !! !! !!

Sounds like my son, in that the real fun comes in when you get to create your own. It's like the building from instructions is just the first lesson, the "how to" for something large, and then they want to apply that. Now, my son was never as skilled or motivated a builder as yours, but I do think I could have a future inventor on hand - which is exactly what he has been claiming for years he wants to be (I think he honed in on that at around age 7). But I am thinking my son is going to have some SERIOUS competition from yours!

We really do have the best kids in the world, don't we? I just love seeing what they can do. I know there are struggles but when you see the gifts, it's just WOW.

What an awesome job!! !

And people say "people with autism suffer"

Your comments made me smile.

Thank you so much.

I am the one who suffers from not being able to keep up with him

your son might like to see pictures of this lego project.

Though if he likes legos, his looking at them may cost you thousands of dollars

http://www.villiard.com/porte-avions-lego.html (but don't click on the link to the blog)