Nathaniel Day 9 - Robot Factory, Treats, and Shoeboxes

You can read about the idea behind Nathaniel Day and the activities of previous months here (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).

For Nathaniel Day this month we didn't have a big activity planned. Abby has story time at the library on Thursdays so we went to that. I let her pick out a movie to watch that night. We brought some lunch with us and ate in the car on our way to the Robot Factory.

The Robot Factory is a little place in Libertyville, IL. It is mostly a place to build with LEGOs. Abby had a coupon from the summer reading program at the library so I thought that it would be fun for the afternoon. It was only open until 2 hence the lunch in the car so that we could be there as long as possible.

Abby had a lot of fun at the Robot Factory. There was a separate room for the littler kids filled with at least three different trains, a doll house, a play kitchen, cars and roads and ramps, and lots of LEGOs. Abby spent most of the time playing with the trains (surprise, surprise) while I made a zoo on the big train table. We played until the place closed and were the only people there all afternoon so had the place all to ourselves.

After that we went and got a treat. I gave Abby the option of ice cream or getting a cookie. She chose ice cream. 

We had Dave pick up dinner since he didn't get to participate in the rest of the day. We had a picnic dinner in the back room and watched the movie that Abby had chosen at the library while wrapping and filling our boxes for Operation Christmas Child. We didn't finish them all that night, but ended up with 13 by the time we were all done with all of them. I figured that 9 were for Nathaniel, one for each month old he would have been, and 4 for Abby, one for each year.