Wordless Wednesday ... Lego Space Shuttles?

Wordless Wednesday...

Well... because I have been given due notice that the above is the Lego holiday project this year to assemble (spotted at the Lego Store in Downtown Disney).  Believe me... I'll have my bulk supply of crazy glue ready to go.

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Lego Harry Potter - A Favorite in our House!

We love the the Lego Video games around our house... so as I'm sure you have guessed we purchased the Lego Harry Potter game as soon as it came out.  The boys have happily been cruising through the levels and we've had many family video game nights already.  But if your house is like ours... the cheat codes come in handy to give you that boost (like invincibility and score multipliers) to keep the younger kids from getting as frustrated with the games. 

Here are some of the cheat codes we have found handy for this game so far:

• Character Token Detector HA79V8
• Fall Rescue ZEX7MV
• Character Studs H27KGC
• Score x2 74YKR7
• Score x4 J3WHNK
• Score x6 XK9ANE
• Score x8 HUFV2H
• Score x10 H8X69Y
• Stud Magnet 67FKWZ
• Regenerate Hearts 89ML2W
• Extra Hearts J9U6Z9
• Invincibility QQWC6B
• Red Brick Detector 7AD7HE
• Hogwarts Crest Detector TTMC6D
• Gold Brick Detector 84QNQN
• Christmas T7PVVN
• Fast Magic FA3GQA
• Fast Dig Z9BFAD

Harry Potter Years 1-4 is available on Xbox, Nintendo Wii and PS3.

 

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Me vs. Legos

Man, I’m really kicking myself about this one. I really thought I’d learned my lesson last year, but I just got lazy. I admit it. 
Legos became popular around our house a couple years ago and during the last holiday season I did something I NEVER thought I’d do… yup, you guessed it – I glued each and every single piece together as we assembled the play sets. Could you blame me? We literally spent the entire vacation week assembling the massive sets the boys had gotten for Christmas (think ten 500-1000 piece sets…). Yes, my husband thought I was crazy when I stocked up on glue, but he was soon making runs to the store to get more.  The sets he put together were coming apart in hours and the kids were coming to me asking me to glue them! There are very few things that frustrate me more than trying to reverse engineer these Lego ships and get the glue in the high stress points!

We are currently celebrating the birthday month for Kyle (we turn birthdays in to a series of birthday things throughout their birth months – Disneyland, dinners, parties, etc.). Lego is the toy of choice currently and Kyle was adamant that he wanted this Lego City garage structure for his birthday. Kyle’s enthusiasm for getting it built left me forgetting to have enough glue handy we dove in and started building. Tonight I am just kicking myself because literally less than 2 hours after completing it, it was falling apart! Yup, I dug out the crazy glue and started doing my reverse engineering and trying to get all the major stress points and COATING it in glue. It is currently drying in the playroom before I’ll let them play with it!

I’m thinking I ought to buy Krazy Glue stock soon because Kyle’s party is still to come later this month (he’s conveniently told all his friends he wants Legos…) and the holidays are coming. Someone please save me from this sea of Legos…

Anyone else willing to admit gluing Legos or other play sets together for your own sanity? Please tell me I’m not alone in this… or that you're at least getting a good laugh!

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