Arts and Crafts

This Monday AJ and I went to our friend Lindsey's place for a group playdate. She and her 2 boys are so nice and sweet and we really had a fun time. Lindsey had a hat project ready for the kids, and here are a few shots of AJ wearing his hat and playing with his buds. (it's a laybug hat in case you can't tell!)



Then on Tues, we went to a "re-use" playdate in Lincoln Park. We took the bus, so here are the kids waiting at the stop.
AJ loved the wide open space to run around in, so he was not as much into the craft, but I went ahead and made a little book with Erin's daughter Violet out of things from the host's recycling bin...stickers from the mail, scrapbooking scraps, and old magazines. We colored on the books with recycled crayons made by melting down all the little broken pieces and nubs and it was fun. Meanwhile, Erin was kind enough to wrangle AJ and Jack while they roamed the open space. Channel 7 News was there to shoot our "green" meetup, so I'll let you know when that's to air and we can see if any of us made it through to the finished product.

Here's a shot of the group crafting, as well as another of AJ roaming with some borrowed sporting equipment.

Here's a bonus shot that just happened to be part of the day as well, but had nothing to do with arts and crafts:
For dinner Andy met AJ and I and our friends Sam, Kurt and Louis at a new place on California. It was pretty good, and AJ loved working on his drinking-straw skills.