August 30: Last Playdate with Ashleigh

As I said, Ashleigh and her family moved to Western Springs on August 31st. So, we played with Ashleigh while her mom packed up. We went downtown to Millenium Park for the kids concert in the morning.


Then we played in the fountain.


After lunch, we went back to the Target Kids tent where we got to paint our faces.


We miss you already Ashleigh!

Craft Time at Millennium Park

After Wiggleworms, we were sooo hot. We all splashed around in the fountain for a while to cool off. At the fountain, we met up with our friends Ruth, Lauren and Lydia who were visiting from St. Louis.

After the fountain, we went to check out the craft tent. The older girls had a great time making hats, and Mari (amazingly) just hung out in the stroller.


Ruth and Lydia


Lauren and Calli


Smiley Mari!


She was so hot and sweaty, but Calli wanted to wear the cool hat she made!


Lauren modeling her hat.

Wiggleworms at Millennium Park

All summer, I have know about these Wiggleworm concerts going on in Millennium Park. So today was the day we went down. It was really nice. They have a great tent, a guitar player to lead the kids in song and dance, and even little instruments for the kids to play. If only it wasn't 90-plus degrees, it would have been perfect! Poor Calli, she gets a sweaty nose - just like her mom.

Mari enjoyed watching other kids and taking their instruments if they ever made the mistake of setting them down :)

Millennium Park - Take 2!

After having such a great time last time, we decide to go back to Millennium Park, and this time to bring friends. We drove down this time, with Lucas & Elizabeth (his grandma), and met up with Jamie, Koji & Izumi.


Alex was even able to walk over the few blocks from work to join us for our picnic.


Izumi and Mari loved crawling around together in the water.


Mari!

It wasn't quite as warm as last time, so Calli was a little more timid. But she enjoyed it - as did Lucas!

Crown Fountain

Millennium Park

Calli had the day off of preschool this morning, so the school teachers and their families could attend the May Day Immigration March/Rally. I decided to take this "day off" and go downtown and spend some time at Millennium Park.
We had a great time. We took the "EL" for only the second time with the girls. We got off at Macy's and got some lunch to go. Rich was able to take a few minutes off his lunch and walk us to the park. First we ate in this picturesque spot.
Then we went to the primary attraction - The Crown Fountain. The girls loved it. The sun was shining - it was warm - and they both got completely soaked!! Calli was running around like crazy from the start. I tried putting Mari's feet in - but she wasn't into that. So I sat her on the side and let her splash with her hands. Soon she was crawling all over the place. And there were a bunch of high school photography students taking pictures of both the girls. It was cute.
When they were done, I took off all their clothes and rang the water out. I put their wet clothes back on, with sweatshirts over top. (Next time, I'll bring swim suits :) )Then we did a quick pass by Cloud Gate, but it wasn't a big hit.
Then a long train ride home. They were both about to pass out by the time we made it to our front door and I got this last picture. What a fun day. We will be going again soon!!