I have three boys – aged 6, 9 & 11. To say they are alike would be false. They are all actually very unique, very different and I’m often amazed at how I think I have raised them the same, yet they are all completely different from one another. Sure, they have their similarities, but they also have their differences. They all have their own interests, and often disagree on what is “cool”. The one thing they all love though is Lego. Their ages are such that they don’t necessarily do things together all the time, but if you put a lego project in front of them, they all gravitate to it and work together to finish it. Last night the three of them sat here at the table, without fighting for longer than an hour {insert miracle here}. It was past their bedtime, and it was a Sunday night but who cares – they weren’t fighting and they were having fun, together. I couldn’t resist taking a few pictures of them and the “power of lego”.
This is so beautiful — and I have to admit it made me tear up a bit, as I just dropped my 12-year-old son off at his dad’s house for two long, grueling weeks…during which time I’ll unlikely get to see him, and yet I pass by the “Lego room” in our home every day, thinking of him sitting there and building his latest creation…
Lovely photos … you’re truly blessed with beautiful children and a talented eye for photos that speak to a mommy’s soul!
Awe Mikalee! Thanks so much for your kind words. Hope the two weeks pass by quickly….build him a “welcome back” sign out of lego!
Take care…..
I am in my 20s and you can still wrangle my siblings and I together with a lego project.
I did the Indiana Jones set with my oldest son about a year ago – it had 1000 pieces or something crazy like that, but I became obsessed with finishing it! haha
i have two little boys and i relish the moments they are not fighting as well. so sweet to see what the future may hold! you have a beautiful blog!
The future with boys is wonderful! I miss the days when they were smaller though, but so glad I have pictures to look back on of those memories.
When I was little, I played with Lego too. The only difference between me and everybody else is I made a mansion of death traps based on The Beast Of Chicago.
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Ah, the new Lord of the Rings, the only set with black horses out of the new Lord of the Rings… oh, oh, oh! Ha ha, I had three older brothers (I was the baby sister), now I have four boys, 15, 13, 11 and our latest, 2. They want ALL the new Lord of the Rings Legos. My oldest actually wrote in suggesting they make Lord of the Rings and Narnia Legos
What is it about Legos that can build the soul and brotherly love? What is it about a group of three boys that gives you a perfect mix of EVERYTHING? Much Love! KL
I would LOVE a fourth boy, but alas, not in the cards for me.
My kids just watched all the Lord of the Rings movies and next thing you know my youngest son got the lego magazine and there they were – LORD OF THE RINGS! All three were so excited. Thank your son for us – if he had anything to do with it – we are grateful! 
I’m sure the great minds at Lego weren’t reliant on my son’s brainstorm… and if so, they should have hurried it up, he wrote that letter nearly four years ago!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful family “Lego” memories.
There is a website at http://www.lego.cuusoo.com that allows adult fans of Lego, and I suppose adult parents of fans of Lego to suggest new ideas for Lego Themes. The votes are sourced to other fans and if 10,000 votes are received for a project, Lego reviews it for production. So far the only one to sneak through in the states is the new Lego Minecraft theme, but Back To The Future and The Legend of Zelda are currently up for review by Lego. Its a pretty exciting time to be a Lego fan; especially one who is old enough to buy one’s own toys.
I think your photographs are awesome!
All is peaceful with the world in this photo…
You know…that’s exactly how I felt last night as I watched them play….
I think it’s a boy thing. My 3 1/2 yr old loves Lego to and he can sit for hrs playing and building with it. Those pics of them working together will be a memory you will cherish as it probably won’t happen to often again. Lol.
read the story of Frank Lloyd Wright, and his penchant for ‘building.’ It’s a ‘guy thing,’ pure and simple. I remember my cousin and I working for hours on LEGOs when we were younger, and his sister (my cousin) just not ‘getting’ what was so ‘great’ about it all. She ended up playing dolls with the youngest in their family (girl) while the ‘guys’ did LEGOs. Funny thing, the Adult men (my Dad and my uncle) would stop discussing politics in the kitchen, and, from time to time, come and watch the ‘boys’ building……
Beautiful! As always!
lego was first created in denmark!
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Thank you!
I am going to check out yours….
Legos are a big part of our world, too. Marvelous photos.
This is wonderful! Legos were a staple at my house too. My brother would have his friends over and they would build, build, build their dreams into lego worlds. There were a few vacations where I remember taking plywood along to make ramps in our hotel rooms for the lego mobiles we built along the way too. Viva la legos!
If you’re ever in Minneapolis, stop over at “Mall of Americas” to see some massive Lego creations.
The Power of lego….
I still remember all the afternoons with my brother when we built a whole city of lego and there was no arguing at all
Great pictures and wonderfull blog!
My brother and me too! And we kept them in an ice cream pail….now my own kids are still playing with that timeless toy!
The toy that builds families!
That says it perfectly! That should have been the title to my blog post!
Legos are so awesome! I was thinking of getting some for me and my husband. LOL
Do it! They are an awesome way to spend time together!
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I agree!
Your pictures are beautiful! I have two young boys (my older son is turning 5 today actually) and we are just starting to learn the deep power of Lego. I love watching and taking pictures of my boys working together and I really love these pictures at the kitchen table, shirts off (the same in our house!) and such concentration. Capturing a REAL moment is the best way to make it a memory. Thank you for sharing.
Legos are the best toys ever! It’s wonderful they’re using their creativity so well.
I completely adore this post.
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Beautiful, precious shots! And congrats on being featured. I’m sure your boys will be thrilled that their ordinary night at home made it to Freshly Pressed. If your family is ever in DC, maybe you’d enjoy the LEGO Architecture exhibit at the National Building Museum.
I was a real Lego girl and this brings back memories
Adorable pictures!
This post is perfect… it made me remember the nights I used to spend with my dad building houses out of Lego… and it always amazed me how he managed to build things that weren’t on the instructions book and that looked great in the end… Even if I am in my twenties now, I still manage to find the time to build some things with him…
Beautiful pictures. I have 3 boys, 19, 16 and 13. The 13 yo is crazy for Legos. Well he was. The past two days have been spent dismantling and packing his sets. He puts instructions and all the pieces in a freezer sized ziplock. So sad to see it all go. I had an amazing graduation present in mind! Maybe he’ll reignite with the Lord of the Rings you’ve written about! Blessings to you and yours.
Awe, a Mom to three boys as well….kudos to you! It would be very sad to see the lego go…I dread that day, so for now I will enjoy (or try to) every moment…
Love the black and white, great shots!
My mom has saved all of my Legos for me, I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I can play with them again with my son. Great post and beautiful photos, thank you!
We always played with lego, my brother and I, Harry Potter was our choice of set (I had the flying car from the 2nd film)
Happy memories
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That is a lovely set of pictures. I have three daughters and it’s amazing when you capture the moments like that.
So sweet and I say all the time that I cannot understand how I can have identical twin boys and have raised them in the exact moment in time and they still have such unique personalities. I am the mom of three boys too and I wish I could take photos like yours. Lovely, just lovely.
Wow kids playing with Lego’s that is awesome. It’s almost like watching them play outside like the old days but i do wonder if this is set for a bright building future. It just causes me to thinks about that Thor line where Odin says Thor’s hammer can be used to destroy or a tool to build. Either way the imagination of a child is limitless isn’t it? -,o
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I had a HUGE Lego collection as a young boy, and had garaged it for years once I’d moved out on my own. A few years ago I sold that collection, along with a few other “toys” from my youth in an effort to clean out the garage and put a few bucks in my pocket. I’m not ashamed to say that I regret selling the Lego’s. Even as an adult they are a perfect way to spend a Sunday evening. You’ve probably just cost me a few dollars, because I think it’s time to replenish my collection…Thanks for sharing this post. AWESOME!!
Go to lego.com – we buy all our sets there….hee hee! Sorry for costing you a bit of $$!
Thanks for the tip. And no worries…I’m really happy you posted this!!!
Absolutely stunning photos. I loved it! Will follow your blog
Hey fantastic photos. my 5 year old is a little bit of a star wars lego nut
Thanks for sharing the great photos and congrats on the FP!
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Cheers.
The most amazing tool of joy that I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing as a child.
Castles, fortresses, sub-aqua machines and dream houses were but scratching the surface of the vast possibilities enabled by those small, plastic bricks.
I can only hope that someday I will again experience the immense release of creative joy enabled by lego, combined with my child mind.
P.s
Stepping on a Lego brick is the worst pain imaginable. Period
I will always be a fan of LEGO, awesome pictures
What a beautiful moment in life, my girls are grown but you bring us all back to times of bliss with our children with this. Thank you 😃
Very nice post. My four-year-old nephew is just getting into Lego and it’s making me very proud
I always loved creating with my Legos. Glad your boys are having fun with them.
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wow, there are still children who can pass the time by playing with Lego. It’s wonderful to know those little bricks are still spreading joy around the world. How they filled my childhood with so much happiness…
More bricks for your boys
Love your pictures. And I also love Lego. Never had any siblings to share it with, though. Had to build with my dad which was nice and without fighting, too.
That is so sweet. And your photography is beautiful. Your style’s very original. I’m single and no kids, but this makes me imagine my niece and nephew when they will grow up. Thanks for sharing something so moving.
that is super sweet. I need to try this with my boys too. mine are ages 4,7, and 10. thanks for sharing a piece of your world with us!
Wonderful post. My youngest of three, a boy, recently turned twenty. That event was a time of celebration and thoughtful remembrance of times long past. To the rescue, rides my middle child, a daughter with two of my four grandchildren, ages two and four. It starts all over, with most of the hard work removed, leaving behind only the joy of raising a new flock.
Congrats on being freshly pressed.
I had a Lego experience last Christmas that I’ve truly come to cherish. My boy, who was 4 at the time, is in love with all things Cars. He loves him some Mater and Lightning and the whole cast. Naturally, coming from a dad who (literally) has millions of Legos in storage in various places in and around our home, he has become fascinated with the Duplos that we’ve supplied for him.
Well, last Christmas, Duplos weren’t doing it for me any more so we got him some Lego Cars sets. Christmas morning he opened them and was all KINDS of excited. We sat there, together, for the better part of two hours putting those sets together. It truly was the second-most memorable moment of any Christmas ever.
Thanks for sharing your moments…
That’s awesome…..I too have sat for hours with my kids building lego. I was determined to build the INdiana Jones set last year….after two days, it was done! And the best part was the time spent with my sons building it.
Love, love, love LEGO and all that it does for children. Great post!
I love all hands on deck creating! I have two, also very different – boy and a girl – yet they share the love of Legos! However they don’t share their Legos! My son builds forts and battlefields spread across his rug whereas my daughter builds skyscrapers on her table. I like the idea of having them create something together!
My wife and I have three boys of our own (3.5 years old, and 15 month identical twins). Your photo jazzed me for the years ahead – excellent!
Awesome! Enjoy the ride….my three boys have changed my life, for the better…..and I adore being their Mom!
Very detail & beautiful B/W picture
Truly beautiful photos.
Love legos. Best toy ever, quite possibly.
Great photos! I love B&Ws!
Oh and congrats on being freshly pressed!
Very cool! I love memories/stories like this. We just moved to CO a week ago – I’ve got 16 yr old and 22 yr old sons and the 22 yr old is here but flying back to FL for about 6 mos before he moves out. That leaves my 16 yr old here alone (hasn’t met any friends yet). We just got done playing a board game and he said he’ll have to take the legos out and play with them when he’s alone, and my 22 yr old said that they should take them all out and build together.
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Legos rule and like music, have the world ready to unite. Cool project from the looks of it. Congrats on freshly pressed.
Legos, blocks, and building… my four-year-old daughter’s favorite activities and my husband’s and my favorite thing to do with her. Your photos are a lovely and honest visual representation of the power of coming together for fun and creative purposes. I love these images.
Your photography is so moving. I loved legos as a kid, but I didn’t get a little sibling till I was ten. When my brother was growing up, he liked legos but he especially LOVED bionicals. I remember building legos and bionicals together, when he was little and chubby- now he towers over me and has to bend over to kiss my cheek. How time flies! Congratulations on a great blog.
Great Photo’s… I still have my old lego’s and plan to give them to my kids (when they are old enough not to eat them). Nice Job being *pressed*
there is some big Lego love in our house! they’re everywhere……
My son, now 46, loved Legos when he was a kid and now loves them even more as he builds with his sons 11 and 8. His daughter, age 4, has girl Legos so now he gets to enjoy building with those too. I imagine he dreams of the day when he can play Legos with his grand children. And, yes, he has all of his Legos from his childhood. Quite a Lego legacy.
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This is something I can totally relate too. My son’s first activity when he wakes up is building his Lego Star Wars space center. He’s so crazy about it. I’m his sidekick. Fun and inspiring post.
amazing photography!
I love this! I also love Legos, so I would totally be there with your boys.
Legos are fun!!!!!!!!!!! No matter how old you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leggo Land is down the street from where I live. And it is — Awesome. Great photos – thank you for sharing.
This is cool
We have all seen children in this kind of trance like play in perfect harmony. It is just a very simple and plain kind of moment….however, you have somehow managed to create beautiful art with your photography!! Amazingly beautiful moment. Thanks for sharing.
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Wow, that almost brought a tear to my eye. I loved Lego too as a boy. Now I’m 38, I often wish that I still had my old bricks and special bits. Lego is one a very few enduring genius toys. Hardly a toy, but the building blocks of our imagination. I can’t wait until my two year old son gains the dexterity to fix a tiny yellow head to a flat-chested body. Thanks for the memories.
I have 3 boys too x this is a wonderful post x
Your sons will grow up, smart, skillful and successful – I see them that way, based on their facial expressions on the first photo. With that being said, they will always love and support each other as they grow old one day. THE POWER OF LEGO, indeed!
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It’s a shame what Lego offers now. I’ve got a lot of good old stuff, and I will not buy any new products for my children. I will create own little parcel for them, with self-made instructions.
Anyway – nice pictures!
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very nice photo
That is perfection!
Truly beautiful photos.
Okay you have me choked up with longing for the days where my 3 little boys filled our farmhouse with their hustle and bustle of growing up!!! *sigh* The empty nest syndrome is always hanging on the air even when one does one’s VERY best to fill the days with good things – Mine are all growed up now 28, 23 and 22 years old – still lovely and precious, but busy with their own lives – just as its meant to be if one gets the job done well – but… All I can say is well done for capturing and savouring these precious moments with you boys, you will never regret it!
Beautiful blog and beautiful pictures. It’s really awesome to be able to immortalize moments like these, isn’t it? Congrats on being Freshly Pressed!
I had a small set of legos when I was growing up in India. it was a treasure bigger than the rare fancy dollhouse or giant stuffed animal. building those skyscrapers still gives me this amazing, innocent sense of empowerment. I’m 23 next month!!
I completely adore this post.
How lovely! Lego had exactly the same power over me when I was littler.
Our boys would play Legos for hours when they were younger…our older son still has every single Lego he ever collected…and now HIS son has his own collection. Great, creative toy!
Wow, awesome ‘mood’ capture! Love the black & white photos
I love LEGO!! I think I spent my chilhood playing lego with my friend…building something… exploring new shapes!!!
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I was in love with LEGO:-)
lego was my favourite thing as a child… in fact it still rates highly on my list of creative activities. such a great story ans such awesome pics, thanks for sharing
wonderfully done, you gave me goosebumps , one day i will have my own kids and make those kind of memories, Your Photography is top notch, even without your writing they convey the emotions of the moment, thank you for posting this
Great pics! With all of the computer and video games today, Legos are one non-tech toy my 9-year-old son and 10-year-old nephew still love to play with too!
Oh, wow. I suddenly missed playing with my Legos. Such a nice childhood memory :’)
i LOVE the LEgo.
I was used to play with them for a lot of time.
When someone was asking me for a gift, obviously it was a new lego for my lego city !
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I still keep my lego toys during my younger days. It’s antique now!
You’r boys are cute. The color effect you used in the picture are made these picture gorgeous.
i used to play Lego aaaaaaall the time with my sisters too!!!!…. Although unlike your picturesque kids, we fought for pieces we wanted and hid them under the table 😉
Lovely to see these photos.
I have a craving for an old fashioned ‘basic’ lego set like I used to play with as a child but it seems impossibly to get one!
At Christmas time they often sell the big boxes of it – I got a 1600 piece one for the boys and they have used it a lot. It’s just your “basic” legos in the primary colours. Watch for it at Wal-Mart, etc.
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Lego forever. Love the danish toy for children
remember myself playing with it during my childhood, and now my youngest brother age 1, playing with exacly the same as I did. Good memories
I love that! It instantly brought back memories of my dad and I playing legos when I was little. Great capturing of a very special moment!
Cheers!
So sweet! I appreciate moments like this as I also have three young boys! Thank goodness for LEGO! Precious – thanks for sharing and congrats on FP!
Hell, we could all use some more Lego in our lives. I’m busting out my old set sometime this weekend!
haha! SO TRUE!! Cheers!
Legos are truly awesome. My siblings and I used to spend many a Sunday afternoon playing with legos for hours on end.
Absolutely love this. Everyday I witness my group of preschool children working together (or individually) to build whatever that’s on their mind. Amazing how legos can actually make them use their planning and problem solving skills even at a young age to create lovely 3D designs. Strongly agree on the “power of lego”. And 2 thumbs up for raising your children wonderfully and the sleek photos!
Just DO NOT build a set while sitting on the couch. The void between couch cushions sucks every piece into other dimensions.
….and do not step on a lego….nothing hurts worse!
This is lovely, its amazing how little inventions can quieten children!
Your pictures are amazing and the story is beautiful! Through your story and your pictures, you inspired me. Let me explain….I am a motivational speaker in order to motivate people to change the world into a more positive place. Your pictures give us a window into a peace and a solitude that is very possible with enough positive things going on. Upon reading how your very different boys came together with LEGO, it sparked my memory on how everyone can put aside their difference when a pile of LEGO is in front of them. So i wrote this blog post: http://motivatingforpositivechange.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/bringing-people-together-with-lego/ to inspire people to make positive change with LEGO. Thank you for your help and inspiration!
Very cool this post! Congratulations from Brazil!
One Hug, Rodrigo Leão
Very cool this post!! Congratulations from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil!
One hug, Rodrigo Leão
Those a beautiful pictures. I am a fan of Lego, too. When I was young these things kept me busy for hours and hours. My family must be so thankful for these bricks for I am not trying to burn the house down otherwise.
I am now 20 years old. I still have every piece of LEGO I had when I was that young. I gave it to my little sister. Every time I go to visit we build castles, cities, entire worlds. LEGO is an investment for life.
I loves these pictures. My 12-year-old son got me hooked on Lego when he was just nine. Now we build them together whenever he gets a new set.
awesome black n white magic. cheers!
Oh this is great! I recently delved back into the world Legos myself. Is that an unsual thing for someone in their early 40′s? Judging from all the lego creation blogs…maybe not. Once I got into them again, my brother got a set himself to build with his new step son…then another set and another. They’ve build up some great bonding time between the two of them and it’s all due to Legos.
They’re not just for little kids anymore
Thank you for this post!
Everybody loves Lego, I would say
I like how you can see the boys being so concentrated on what they’re doing. Especially the last photograph is well done!
Wow. First of all, your photos are beautiful. Second, you have brought back some precious memories. My brothers and I would play legos for hours on end… and just as with your boys, they were some of the most relaxed, non-antagonistic “spending time together” moments. Thank you for the reminder.
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I did not have a chance to read every single comment to see if anyone pointed this out, but I absolutely love how your photos captured the magic of every colorful Lego in black and white, which is so unexpected! It is like you tapped in to the shadow-side; since they are so bright and vivid and “fun”, but making a project is also so serious and all-encompassing in the moment. And yeah, stepping on them, as you mentioned…that is their incredibly dark side.
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Oh what warm memories these photos stirred just now! My son is 22, and Legos played such a role in our lives when he was younger. We had a regulation-size pool table in the middle of our den. He kept the whole table covered with legos, and most of the tile underneath the table was covered. Such a warm-fuzzy remembering him spending hours playing, and using that imagination of his! There is no doubt in my mind, he wouldn’t think twice before digging into a pile of Legos today. Thanks for taking me back!
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Some great little snaps.
Your photographs are AMAZING! I love that your boys are so very different, but they can still find common ground. Thank God, for Legos! God Bless!
Beautiful photos! My three boys are 8 (almost 9), 7 and 5 and Lego rules our house at times. We didn’t know that the Lord of the Rings sets were out, yet. I think I know what my oldest will be getting for his birthday in August!
My youngest Grandson, Brad is a Legomaniac. He is hyper-active most of the time except when he is building a new lego piece. His father has taught him how to use the internet to look up the Lego site, and to download new designs to make. God Bless Lego!
lovely images…can almost hear the stories being shared…beautiful works! Congratulations on being “freshly pressed”!
So precious! Love the pictures.
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Fabulous blog, great photos & so close to my heart I also have 3 children ages 5, soon to be 9 & soon to be 11. My eldest is a boy & he has ASD & absolutely loves Lego – the girls don’t mind Lego if they manage to get a look in either!
Beautiful, timeless shots of your boys. They look so studious with their lego bricks. Thanks for sharing.
Nothing like boys all sitting together concentrating on something. Love it – and beautiful pictures!
Uniting power of Lego. I am in 20s, and I still remember that when I was a child I was dying to have Lego Belville house and Lego Belville yacht. This, don’t know how to call it,…. toy or constructor is so inspiring and developing the child’s creativity that I would like my children have it
Lovely and “warm” pictures 
Lovely story and photos. Reminds me of my cousin and I playing legos for hours! Never get old! wondering if you could read my blog too? just started out a day ago! Would love to hear from you if you don’t mind.. http://intheendless.wordpress.com/ thank you and happy blogging
I’m amazed that they didn’t fight over who got to place the pieces! That’s great. Legos are awesome, timeless, and evidently team building. Great photos. Congrats on being Freshly Pressed!
I love Lego! One of my favorite things is to watch my brother (who is 15) and my boyfriend (who’s much older) play Lego together. My boyfriend’s dad still plays with Lego too!
Beautiful pictures!!!! I love Lego too!
Lego is inspiring just like papero
lego is great until you tread on the stuff in the middle of the night grrrrrrr
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I used to LOVE Legos! The possibilities of what you can build are endless. Great photos of your boys at work
Lovely Images, brings back memories, hours of fun playing with Lego as a child. And now I have three of my own I get to play with it again,
Nice. I have sons and we started making ego stop motion vids. As a family team effort. They are getting pretty good. Thanks for sharing
Interesting… As a child, I always thought of Lego time as a more solitary activity. It was an excuse to disappear and practice my budding perfectionist tendencies. Regardless, this brings back fond memories. I’m thinking I should work on having some kids so that I have an excuse to pick some up again. That’s a legitimate reason to procreate, right?