After seeing an awesome play mat at Robynn's for a couple of years now, I have wanted to make my boys a play mat like the one the Thiot kids and Bill had when they were kids. Tatia made a darling one for Penny's second birthday and I knew I wanted to make one for Miles birthday. Robynn was so nice to let me borrow the patterns and I added a few buildings that were unique to us. Well, it definitely turned out to be a huge labor of love and a lot bigger project than I anticipated. However, it was so fun personalizing the mat and putting in some of the buildings they love. In the end, I am so happy with the way it turned out and the boys LOVE playing with it. It took me a while after Miles birthday to actually complete the coloring since we were on vacation for a couple of weeks. The boys would run out every morning while I was coloring it to see what I had finished the night before. They have had it for a day now and they have played with it all day. That makes me so happy! I think the thing that I love most about the mat, is that it is like a little snapshot in time as to the life of my boys: where we grocery shop, their favorite restaurant, their favorite gas station, their schools, favorite buildings, etc.
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| Miles' Play Mat as he received it on his birthday morning |
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| Miles' finished Play Mat |
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| Farm, Grammy Mountain and Gramps & Grammy's house |
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| Covino's (the boys favorite restaurant), Spanish Schoolhouse (boys' preschool) and Gulledge Elementary School |
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| The park and pond behind our house |
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| Our house |
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| Oliver Airfield and Daddy's old work EDS/HP -- the whole reason we are in Plano in the first place |
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| Loves Gas Station (the boys favorite while traveling), Post Office, USA Martial Arts (Oliver's Karate studio), Fire Station, Police Station, and Covino's again. |
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| Grandma & Grandpa's house next to the farm again |
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| Mommy's Cafe (This is what Miles' and Oliver call my kitchen) and the Library |
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| ASI Gymnastics and Whole Foods (Clayton jokingly --kind of -- calls Whole Foods Whole Pay Check) |
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| Hospital and Oliver Airfield again |
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| And finally some of our favorite downtown buildings: Miles' Station, Reunion Tower (Oliver's fave), Clocktower building, Chase (Daddy's favorite), Fountain Plaza (Mommy's favorite) and Bank of America (Miles favorite). |
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