I'm currently, well, still working on how to organize toys. I absolutely love toys and watching my kids delight in them, but I also can't stand toys unless they are open ended and span many ages.
My newest phase of this never-ending organizational task is creating a toy library. It's basically an effort to rotate toys and not have too many choices out at once. The boys can check something out of the toy library by checking a toy that's already out back in. Make sense? Then we don't have a million toys out, and some toys aren't seen for longer periods of time and become exciting again.
I've been reading lots of organizational, simplifying, children's play kind of books the past few months, as well as observing my boy's play patterns, and finally it all seems to be coming together as I read Simplicity Parenting. 
A few examples: I grouped the kitchen, babies, and laundry toys all in one area creating a "house" and poof! It's all being played with again.
I put the Duplos away for a while and now this week poof! They have been building daily.
We did a little Easter art...which really has nothing to do with toys...but Lewis likes art and we don't do it very often because my energy is too low at 37.5 weeks pregnant.
I also think the warmer days help. We are in the house less so we aren't constantly trying to think of something we haven't already done ten times over.
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