As visions of architectural toys danced in their heads....

Toys for urban-inclined children (or for the child in all of us)!

Lego Architecture Sets: available in Fallingwater, Guggenheim, The White House, Rockefeller Center, Seattle Space Needle, Empire State Building, and John Hancock Tower.

 For more Lego fun, check out I LEGO N.Y. by Christoph Neimann.

Tried and true Classic Wooden Building Blocks (or Bauhaus Building Blocks for the more modern child).

This Jigsaw Map can be centered on any town in the continental United States. I love the vintage look of the map!

A grow-your-own Bonsai Redwood forest.

Any book by David Macaulay is a delight for kids (and for adults)! Two of my favorites are Building Big (about skyscrapers) and Underground (about sewers, tunnels, subways, and everything else underneath a city).

And finally, a sweet book rest lamp to inspire sweet dreams and visions of Santa Claus tomorrow morning.

Merry Christmas, All!