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:rofl: yep behind the loo
Then I went in to build all 13/14 (not sure now) sets for Miss A to wake up to.
Bring on birthday lego ;)
Some of her smurf set things are missing but they got that over a year ago when they weren't into lego and it was just in a random tub!
game for tomorrow "find the missing smurf bits" lol:
Can't be bothered, too much to do before we go away... Lol.
Will find them eventually, have a feeling at least 1 piece was binned.
DD1 is so happy I found the roof!
She's pretty excited all of the sets are made for her too, wonder if it will last the week til her party!
Hiding in my room this morning while dd watched toybox (I hate that show!). Hear n almighty crash and assume she dropped the box with the Lego. Dh was "otherwise indisposed) so she runs up going "mummy mummy I neeeed you. It broke". And then drops to her knees, slides along the ground "it broke like this". Ummmmm...
Drag myself out to the lounge to find the table she is using (a foldable camp table she borrowed from granma) had collapsed at one end, sending probably a thousand pieces or more crashing to the floor! Her explanation with dropping to her knees made perfect sense after that! Say on the floor to help her clean up and she begged me to finish the house her 13yo cousin built last night. One wall needed some more bricks. Finished it, had a look and found it had no internal doors. Has rooms bit no doors to get into them! Am now (finally) allowed away from the Lego to have a cuppa! Yay me!
Oh dear that doesn't sound good BG.
I'm trying to talk up a bit of decluttering of the toys to DS and mentioned to him last night that Christmas and his birthday are coming up soon and he might get some new toys. He said, "I want lots of Lego". Out of the blue because I haven't been talking to him about lego and he doesn't really play with it much yet. Psychic talents maybe?!
Soooo I may have bought 2 new sets today... well 1 is actually a present from BG :dance: and the other was so DD2 didn't miss out but shhhhhhh don't tell!
What was the other set? Dh looked at the pic of miss A and goes "you obviously haven't turned the box over cos I've seen that one at big w". Oops!!
Heading home from a trip to bunnings. Time to rearrange some stuff. Have a table for Lego now. She borrowed a table from granma which kept falling down. So granma found another one and told us to go and get it. But I need to find room fr it cos its a bit bigger. All three girls (and you and I) will be able to play with Lego together when you visit next, ZF!!
The water rescue jet ski :p
Is that the one with the shark?
Yeah & the surfer ;)
Yup thought so.
Time to rearrange the lounge again. Sick of the toy mess anyway so I'm moving it into the end room and she can bring out one sort of toy at a time. Then pack it up and bring out the next stuff. Been trying to convince her and dh to do this anyway but with everything in the lounge it doesn't work.
I live in eternal hope!
Ohhhh sounds like fun ;)
The girls lego has all been miced into the toy room, hate having the toys all in the lounge so outlawed it.... Lol. They still find their way in!
Just wondering how you sort/store your Lego. Does each set get stored separately (in the original box?) or does it all just get jumbled together? Do you sort/store according to size? I'm thinking they need to be kept separately so DS can find the pieces he needs to make stuff easily, but how do you police that? And, if its all together, doesn't that help with creative play? It's doing my head in trying to figure out what to do!! :wall:
At the moment, each of our sets is in its own container. We have a container with mixed Lego in it, for random stuff, but when I get "mummy can you make x set up really quickly" I like to know all the bits are there!
I think that will change when she is older and following instructions is a little less stressful, but for now, limiting the pool of pieces for her while she is following instructions is helping us.
It does make for an awful lot of containers though! :)
That's my thought too - a big container for general stuff, and each set separate....looks like those plastic food containers DH bought this week will have another use ;)
DS has only played with duplo & the bigger mega bloks. We have done what BG has done. We have random stuff in a big container but sets have been kept in their original box. While the box lasted... Once the box has been destroyed, it gets added to the random stuff. I try to encourage the kids to put their own toys away. I don't expect them to separate the sets. I try to help by telling them which piece goes in which box but not stressing too much and sorting it out later. At 4 & 2 it's a bit too much to expect them to sort them into proper boxes. Having said that though, I just got it all out & tried to put it together for DD and found I forgot to sort it all out lol. It was pretty well done though. Only a few pieces were mixed up. The OCD part of me felt a bit anxious at finding mega bloks mixed in with the duplo :redface:. I'm trying to get over that lol.
I have two storage drawers under DS's bed. At the moment, they have MCNs in them but I will be moving them soon to make way for lego.
Right now, DD is playing with the Thomas the Tank Engine mega bloks sets.
I have found, that dd is almost as OCD as me with keeping things sorted. When it comes time to out things away she will bring over the pieces of each set and sit with me to pull them apart. She was a bit over 4 when we started playing with Lego, so obviously that extra bit of age helped a bit. And inheriting my neeeeeed for organisation lol. I think us praising her for using the brick separator has helped a bit. She gets really excited to pull things apart and put them away cos she can use the separator (and "mummy, I have to help you cos daddy doesn't know how to use this, I'm so clever!"). She likes to be able to put the sets away in their right place too. She asks me every time she gets a new set if she can help me find a home for it.
We use the sistema snap close containers. They are more exxy than some other brands, but they seal well. We had the random Lego on a different container and my 13yo niece managed to drop it. More than once. On wood floors. Noisy! And 1600 pieces makes a damn big mess! So we decided it was better to have proper seals. Dd can drop them without Lego bits going everywhere! Thankfully Coles have had them on sale recently so we've picked up the more commonly use ones relatively inexpensively. Have a stash of spare ones hanging about because of them being cheap. May have say back thinking "ok, she's getting x sets for Christmas, what containers will we need) and trying to make sure we had enough sitting here. Lol. May need to get another 5 or 7L container for her as she is getting a couple of big sets. But I'll have to wait too she gets them to work out exactly how big she needs them.
BG - yeah, it was the systematic stuff DH came home with this week too. Can DD get the lids off by herself?
And, Rowellen, it'll be the two MCN drawers under DS's bed that will get emptied for Lego I think! I would not handle Mega Blocks and Duplo together either *shudder* i think thats part of the reason I'll NEED to have the Lego separate... Gotta love all our quirks!
yeah DD has no drama with getting the lids off - occassionally she has trouble getting them to snap locked properly - but it might be one point on a lid that has four - so it's still on enough.
i'll grab a pic of our storage for the lego and post in a little bit - we recently purchased an ikea bookshelf, so the older (much smaller, and sadly inadequate) bookshelf i had as a kidlet has become our lego storage - it's not perfect (i have to stack stuff up so it's not 100% accessible immediately), but it's NEAT, and it's organised enough. i have the books sorted out and each container has a single set with it's set number and a way to identify where the book is. i've also printed all the extra stuff from the lego site that is relevant to what we have, and put it in folders (i could just download to ipad and put it in kindle BUT i don't want dd to have that much access to the ipad, or to associate ipad and lego as being something that go together)
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Top shelf has containers with books in them. Have up on folders with plastic pockets. The books aren't set size so it doesn't work for us. Folders have the printed stuff (white boxes are
Play station games and controllers)
The big gap on the second shelf is where the generic Lego lives. It's all out in the lounge at the moment
Half the bottom shelf is empty containers at the moment. But I know she is getting Lego at Christmas. There are a few divided containers that we grabbed from bunnings. They are fantastic for sitting sets before putting big things together. I out the boat together last week without sorting stuff first and I swear it took me an hour longer than it should have lol
Wow BG you are organised! I have a bookshelf exactly like that in the back room. ATM it's storage for DD's clothes as there is too much other crap in the cupboard and I just don't have the time to go through it just yet. Especially as the kids can't be around as it has heaps of xmas presents in it. I love those containers. DS can open them easily. DD can open them too but sometimes needs help.
This is ours at the moment:
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1x clear tub with dividers, sorted into thick or single line bricks
1x tool box with removable tubs (was DP's) and we sort each small thing (lights, animals, clothes, flats) into different spots
1x cheap desktop drawer, has booklets, small boards & barbies big pieces.
Only just set this up with an old coffee table in the toy room.
I WILL be changing this and will be looking at binning a for different tubs with divider options to sort by color or size.
Anyone else suddenly getting the Mr Toys Toyworld ad on top of the screen, with Lego ads on it? lol
What else to do while the hubby watches the footy than to check out the half price specials (can do it cos i know i don't have any spare money this week so won't impulse buy hahahahah) - they do have a smurfs advent calendar (mega bloks) for $20 instead of $50, if anyone is interested...
Any other half price lego?
nope
it's very rare to get lego cheap cheap. Lego Australia have minimum prices they sell to their retailers. the likes of kmart and bigw will sometimes have a big item (at the moment, the boat) at less than cost price, and use it to entice people in, and then sell the rest at a bigger margin. means small places (like toyworld etc) just can't compete
I figured :(
I know of at least 1 more lego coming miss A's way now so at the moment it's at least 10 and possibly 2 more from SIL but not sure if they are x-mas or b'day & I know mum has some for x-mas... Lol!
And you were mocking me for having so many sets so quickly lol
Lol, still won't be near your what ...... 50?
It is slightly addictive, I'm going to be building for weeks after her birthday ;)
Love Lego. Now I wish I hadn't gotten rid of my Lego from when I was a kid. We had tons of it & gave it away. I thought maybe I could get some second hand off eBay but they go for a lot too!
DD doesn't have a whole lot yet but we'll add to her collection for her birthday & Christmas. :-)
there are a couple we've intentially doubled up on - but there are 59 different sets in there... and a few on layby towards christmas... and a couple that i will get before christmas once they are released (and one i will get off ebay when i can afford it!!):
59.... :0
We will be at like 20 something bit I guess that will basically be in a 2mth period :p
Moi my younger (16 & 18) brothers have all our old lego and rudely won't give it to their nieces, I mean really can't I (oops DD's) just play with what was once mine :p
We had one of those sets before dds birthday at the end of may...
DS has one set atm...with a couple more on the way at Christmas. We are actually on hols at the moment and the only toy we brought with us was...the Lego set. He asked to leave the Perth Show this arvo so he could come back to the hotel to make a police car! The second we are in the room, its Lego, Lego, Lego! Not sure if we can wait til Christmas for more sets, judging by the budding obsession he's got ;) Just got to figure out what sets to buy first...
Loving seeing how everyone is set up too. Thanks for the pics - I don't feel quite so OCD anymore (or at least not alone in my OCD-ness!) ;)
What to get really depends on budget to be honest. We have been fortunate that we have sold some of dds baby stuff (pram, clothes etc) as well as some stuff of that dh had collected a while back and put that back into buying Lego. Right time right place kinda thing. Which has meant we've been able to buy things like the boat without feeling like the budget is stretched too far. A lot if the sets we have are the smaller sets. $5 for an animal set from the friends theme, or even $ 15 for some of the sets isn't as daunting as $80 plus fir a big set, or $130+ for a Christmas set...
Personally, I think for value for money, the "bricks and more" sets are one of the best. They are targeted at younger kids and are really versatile. Safari set has been a fave with dd. Was $13 or $15. From big w. Ummmmm the big pink or blue tubs are only around the $50 mark. The mega box (with $16 pieces) is $79 at Kmart (and has been that price at our local target for at least four years!). This set does have small pieces too so I've divided it up to keep the tiny bits out of general play. There is also a cube in kmart for $39 with 600 pieces - and it looks to be all the bigger pieces.... I love the creator sets too. Love that they have multiple designs in one pack. Have found a couple of car sets that dd neeeeeeds now. One is the set ZF got from our dd for her bday (car/quadbike on one set). Another is a roadster car that becomes a really old fashioned car and a 4wd. Then there are a few others. Like the chopper that becomes a plane or hovercraft. The eagle that becomes a scorpion or beaver. Ahhhh must stop looking at Lego. Or start giving extended family Christmas ideas. :)
We bought the cube from k-Mart to start, it's a cardboard box with a red lego look lid (sorter lid).
Great value for money, I've also picked up random ones along the way & have bigger sets aside for her birthday.
The barbie mega bloks we bought from woolies when they were marked down & the girls were sick, it kept them occupied.
Now it takes all my will to NOT just buy the ones I... I mean the girls want ;)
Yeah it's all about what the kids want.....
We may have more sets than we really intended to get seeing dd wanted one set and I thought another was better value but had already said she could choose... Like safari animals vs princess set... Lol
DD1 has a mental list of what she wants to buy if she does t get stuff for her birthday... I REALLY hope she sticks with the dolphin cruiser ;)
The cruiser is awesome. Just keep telling we that. It has three people and two dolphins. And it is so much fun to play with (according to e of course!)
Remind me thurs to go look for that book for you. Her list will be huge once she sees that lol
Haha yeah it will be ;)