DNA

BallFiend was showing Gran something that he and I had made recently out of his toy (a recent birthday present): a model of a DNA double-helix spiral. 

This is how it looks in the instruction booklet and ours looked pretty much the same. 

Gran: Do you know what DNA is?

BallFiend: Yes! It’s the stuff in your cells that tells the cell how to make another cell. 

That's my little science nerd!

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Super Lego Mario

BallFiend has been fascinated Super Mario ever since DeepSpice and I started playing Super Paper Mario on the Wii about a year ago. (Thanks CutLuce and DesignerMonkey for the super-extended loan of the game). Well, he got some new Lego for his birthday (thanks Gran and GrandPaul and StompyDad) and ever since, he has been busy re-constructing the 2D-flip-into-3D Super Paper Mario world... 

That's Mario, at the front to the right - with a yellow core and a light blue bit on top.

The peaceful street-scape of Flipside, with the tower looming over-head.

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What the?

"What an earth have you doing!?"

- Thumper upon noticing that I was using the computer. 

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Another problem solved

Thumper: sniff sniff

DeepSpice: Thumper, do you need your nose wiped?

Thumper: sniff sniff No I can sniff it back up my nose.

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