Lego/Mega Bloks Lovers #2...

**Rowellen** · December 21st, 2013, 01:19 PM

Sounds like fun ZF.

Tomorrow will be interesting. Xmas at my parents. They have got both kids lego. What are my chances of convincing them not to open them or lose any pieces? Slim to none I think if I know them and believe me I do. Every xmas and birthday they rush through the presents and open things and more than once, pieces have been lost or instructions thrown out with the wrapping paper. Add in the fact that things aren't great between my parents & DH & I and about the only thing I'm looking forward to tomorrow is coming home and helping the kids with their lego :/ Give me strength!

**briggsy's girl** · December 21st, 2013, 02:16 PM

Do you know what sets they are getting? Take appropriately sized containers to tip pieces in if they insist on opening - and make them sit somewhere that they can't go walk abouts.

We have a specific container that we use to tip bits in to assemble new Lego. Dd knows to grab it if we are making something. It's an old Tupperware one we inherited from dh's mum that is in good nick (so can't replace) but had stuff stored in it for several years and I'm not sure it's food safe. I think because we have that one container to use we would have no probs saying no Lego here cos she just knows kwim? Take a small folder to put your instructions in if they open them too.

I want it to be Wednesday. I want new Lego to play with!

**Rowellen** · December 21st, 2013, 04:11 PM

Great idea BG. I will do that.
Mum has told me what she's got but I'm not sure which one's she is giving for xmas and which ones for birthday. There were quite a few.

**briggsy's girl** · December 21st, 2013, 04:26 PM

Great idea BG. I will do that.
Mum has told me what she's got but I'm not sure which one's she is giving for xmas and which ones for birthday. There were quite a few.

Assume all of them for Christmas and take a container each that will accommodate the biggest one

**~Kim~** · December 22nd, 2013, 06:32 AM

Good luck Rowellan....at least you get more lego

Really hope it goes better than you expected.

After my contact with the lego store online, they actually posted me out the free set I missed out on (it's a cute little Chrissy tree shop), so after a hiatus for a few days from the elf on the shelf (not I don't do the whole threat thing, they just love finding him, but after a shocking week with the kids he needed a rest lol), he's done them a trail with streamers to find the set under the tree.

**Rowellen** · December 22nd, 2013, 05:18 PM

We survived! It was a long & stressful day. Very draining. Lucky the kids were too overwhelmed with presents to even think about opening the boxes of lego. DD got 3 sets - andreas bedroom, emma's car and a pink tub of lego. DS got about 6 - 2 creator (red helicopter & small green race car), 3 city ones (museum breakin, dirt bike transporter, race car & truck) and a copy cat brand one (banbao - some kind of spaceship.). Plus a few minifigures. He also got a reward from his star chart this morning. That was the one he choose to open when we got home. Looks like a big day of lego tomorrow!

That is awesome service there Kim!

**~ Zarava Flutterby ~** · December 23rd, 2013, 05:44 AM

I'm hanging for Christmas, girls got 19ish sets (mostly double ups) from
Family over the weekend plus the sets, books & stationary (yay I found it) we will be giving them plus 3 sets for Zara for her birthday! Bring it on!

**Rowellen** · December 23rd, 2013, 11:36 AM

Totally exhausted after spending the morning building lego with the kids. And cleaning the kitchen, making gingerbread and playing with play-doh. But making lego with DD is very tiring. DS is better but he struggles with the simplest instructions sometimes and it is frustrating. It is worth it though when their faces look so happy and they play with the finished product.

Today we've done:
Creator race car
Emma's car
A minifigure (I think it's a gladiator)
The big pink tub - I made a house and cart for the horse.

**~ Zarava Flutterby ~** · December 23rd, 2013, 01:32 PM

Today - digger & dump truck mine, barbie ice cream stand....
They want to build more, I'm buggered!

**JLeigh29** · December 23rd, 2013, 06:18 PM

I'm jealous you all have new Lego to play with already! Can't wait for Wednesday...

**briggsy's girl** · December 23rd, 2013, 06:26 PM

I have to put together Olivia's tree house either tonight or tomorrow night. I'm leaning towards tonight. I don't want to stress about it tomorrow night!

**Rowellen** · December 23rd, 2013, 10:43 PM

What did you decide BG?

Not long to wait Jleigh!

I thought DD had lost some pieces from her sets already but I found 4 in my bedroom and 1 in the dining room. I'm glad I found them all since they are brand new sets but somehow I don't think we will manage to keep all the pieces for long. No matter how often I tell her to keep it in the loungeroom, she just ignores me.

**~ Zarava Flutterby ~** · December 24th, 2013, 04:59 AM

Santa comes tonight, Santa comes tonight

**briggsy's girl** · December 24th, 2013, 05:44 AM

What did you decide BG?

Put it together last night. It's in a black plastic bag under our bed. She should have no reason to be in our room today at all. And definitely not on the other side of the bed behind other stuff lol

It's Christmas Eve! Woot!!!

**~ Zarava Flutterby ~** · December 28th, 2013, 05:37 AM

Cleaning out the toy room today, finding places for all the lego & craft stuff the girls got

**~TT40~** · December 28th, 2013, 06:11 AM

So...we have been invaded! For Xmas Spock got a massive bag of second hand mega blocks from my cousin. Including a garbage truck and fire truck thing and anyther car. And from my folks she got a huge box of duplo and a circus set of duplo. She loves it all. I've put it all into a 50l tub and it only just fits. Is that how most people keep it? Just in a big tub?
Is it wrong if I want to be more and make her a cubby house out of it all? =p

**briggsy's girl** · December 28th, 2013, 07:07 AM

Nothing wrong with that at all TT40!

When we had big blocks we kept them in a wicker-type blanket box (easier for dd to open).
Now that we have Lego (and so many little pieces!) each set is in a snap lock container.

Dd really wanted allllllll her friends stuff set up to make her own heartlake city. So I continue to set stuff up while she plays. In between managing a horrendous headache!

**AnyDream** · December 28th, 2013, 08:31 AM

Hi ladies, just wanted to ask a question. I'm in the throes of building my Christmas lego (SQUEEEE!!) which is one of the winter village sets. I expected the pieces to be grouped in some kind of logical order in the bags, but they are a really weird jumble (ie, to do the very first small build I needed tiny bits out of 5-6 different bags). Is it like that in all the big sets? DD's friends stuff comes in numbered "modules", and this is my first big set of lego EVER... so I'm not sure whether doing the hunt & pick is normal??

Anyway, it was too much cognitive tasking for me, so I have sorted them all into colours, with another tub for the tiny 1x1 pieces & one for all the random customised pieces. And I've sent DH out to get me some clear plastic takeaway containers, so I've got room to scratch around within each container without having to tip them out every time. Is this OK? Or is the hunt & pick the Honorable Lego Way? Am I letting the Lego sistahood down with this hack? Or is there a better way?