Our LEGO Challenge

Brycen is just crazy about Legos. He does well putting sets together and loves to build things from his own imagination. I am trying to figure out how we are going to manage his Lego collection when Kami starts crawling. Right now his Legos are in the family room. I like having them out where he can play with them easily and where the pieces don't get lost with all the other toys in the boys' bedroom. I think I will just have to gate off that section of the family room.

Our other challenge is all the Legos sets they look beautiful fresh out of the box and newly constructed. See:

These are some new toys from his birthday party. Lance's mom and my dad both think we should glue the pieces together. I admit that would be less of a hassle, but then at the same time why buy Legos if you can't take them apart? Still, I have yet to find a way to organize them so that when they want to rebuild a set they can actually find the right pieces. I think I would need to hire a full time Lego organizer.

A friend of mine has a very different approach to Legos. She lets her kids build with the instructions one time then encourages them to put the instructions away, take it a part and build something new. They have an entire room just about dedicated to their Lego collection. She is raising very bright children; he 15 year old son is a sophomore at BYU, maybe she has a point. I do love to see what Brycen creates. Here are some of his more recent creations:

In the front are his Lego dragons the all have different powers and abilities. He can talk to you about them for hours. In the back are his "Star Wars ships."

I guess I should just let him enjoy his collection the way he wants to, which I guess means no glue, and no clean family room!

This weekend Lance took Brycen and his friend Scott to the Lego store so they could help build an 8 foot Lego Yoda. All three "boys" had a great time. Zac was afraid they might have characters there so I took him and Scott, and Kami up to my parents' to hang out and eat McDonalds.

Each child got to build a section of Yoda.

They built the big Yoda around a smaller 3 foot Yoda. They are in the background waiting to turn their pieces into the Lego expert.

They also let the kids build race cars and race them down the ramp.

Lastly, what kind of post would it be without some new pictures of Kambridge?

Kami is adjusting to our Fall weather. She was not quite sure what to think of long pants, long sleeves, and socks. She is so dang cute!