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Lego Architecture Series

August 24, 2010
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I thought I knew all things Lego, but I came across these Lego Architecture Series sets the other day and had never heard of them before.  Probably the fact that our oldest kids are only 7 and they would never use up valuable shelf space at our local Toys R Us with such interesting toys.  [...]

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Fred Snack and Stack – “Lego” silverware!

July 23, 2010
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I was just looking at these and a couple of 7 year old boys walked by and immediately said “I want that! Can we get those!” So now we have a pretty good indication of the target user of this especially cool spoon, knife and fork set. It is made by Fred and Friends  (I [...]

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Chrome Lego Darth Vader

February 25, 2010
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Having twin seven year old boys means getting two chances for at least one of them to share your interests, and in my case I seem to be doubly lucky.   Of course, some things really are more or less sure bets.  The chances that any seven year old boy would love both Star Wars and [...]

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Lego Storage

January 10, 2010
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LEGO Storage is a problem for all of us with LEGO Loving Loved ones. Well, I have an example of an amazing LEGO storage system. I was reading The Blue Blog, one of my favorite knitting blogs, the author of which also has LEGO obsessed twin boys. Behold, the wonders of her system:

A contaner store [...]

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Toy Story LEGOs

January 8, 2010
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Our boys are pretty exclusive to the Star Wars LEGOs, they aren’t as interested in the other sets. I imagine that will change once they see the Toy Story LEGOs that are being released to go along with Toy Story 3. I like the Woody’s Round Up set which also includes a LEGO Stinky Pete. [...]

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Lego Alarm Clock

November 14, 2009

If you have a kid that loves Legos as much as ours do, then this is probably the alarm clock for them.  The Lego Alarm Clock apparently comes in different colors, with variations in Green, Red, Pink, and Blue.  Most retailers appear to be sold out of all but one of the various colors of [...]

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Lego Inauguration Replica

January 24, 2009

You may have already seen this, but I can’t stop looking at it! The Lego artisans at Legoland in California made a replica of the inauguration ceremony, and it is beyond detailed. They got everyone there, all the past presidents, Oprah, Aretha, and the whole crowd.

The ceremony:

Even the porta-potties!

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Birthday Present Roundup

November 29, 2008

Speedy and Rainbow turned six on Thanksgiving. They are officially big kids now they are six.  They were quite pleased with their birthday presents.
We started out the morning with some adorable ghostie lights from Ikea.  They had been asking for night lights they could take into bed with them, and I saw these ages [...]

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What is Bakugan And Why Are My Kids Willing to Sell Their Sister To Get Them?

November 13, 2008
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More Great Advent Calendars

November 12, 2008

I was pretty excited about the Lego advent calendar a while ago. Well, I have discovered some other fabulous advent calendars, and before December too! Playmobil, which is tied with Legos in my affections, makes a Christmas in the Forest advent calendar.

It looks to be chock full of adorable tiny little Playmobil animals. Oh the [...]

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