You can never have too many legos!

But you can reach a point where you need to get organized! So, after the trip to the lego store, we came home and began obsessing over legos all week. First Habeeb and Jman worked on building Jman's new lego train set together.
That led to us wanting to find all the bricks for the other lego trains we have. However, that was an impossible job with the state of the lego collection. To give you an idea, we had a large four drawer dresser full of legos, plus others that overflowed and were in bins or in various creations somewhere around the house. It was time to organize the legos.
It took days, and we're still not 100% finished, but we're 90-something% finished, enough to be able to begin rebuilding some of the train sets. Habeeb wanted to rebuild the Santa Fe Super Chief. I was working on the Holiday Train. Sly was building whatever custom creations entered his head (and generally getting in the way!). Jman played with his trains, and crashed them, and then they had to be rebuilt, again, and again. And SB3 just fussed for attention and tried to eat any legos he got his hands on. But here are a couple of shots to give you an idea of the work area. There are bins with larger sets of bricks, small drawers with sets of smaller bricks, and then there's the tackle boxes for the tiny specialized pieces. (Remember those 'workboxes' from homeschooling? Well, they're lego bins now!)

And finally, here's a happy Jman with a few more train cars going around. I'd love to have some 'finished' pictures for you, but that may take another week of playing with legos!