Robo joins the family

I  had a really crafty weekend that involved finishing two knit projects (photos to come), baking oatmeal cookies, and I finished a collaborative art project that Darin and I had been working on since last year. Um, you see it wasn't a difficult project that took us a year, it's just that for some reason it took me a year to get around to finishing my part of the project.

So what's this project you say??!! Well Darin draws robots quite a bit and we wanted to work on a project together, so Darin drew up a robot and I made the robot out of felt. I finished sewing him together on Saturday night and those last few stitches were filled with lots of excitement and anticipation.

Here's what I started out with - the diagram. The first thing I did was work out the dimensions.

I have no progress pics, but his body with two legs and two arms had been sitting in a plastic bag for nearly a year - shame on me. To celebrate the newest edition to our family, we took robo on a trip around Tokyo on Sunday. Here's our baby!

Minding our post box

Hiding in the grass at the park

Hanging out with dad

Robo proves he's not afraid of heights. He came with us to a fleamarket on top of Parco in Kichijoji.

Relaxing with a Coopers at the park

Robo's first trip on a train

We travelled to Jo's house to hang out with her and Nico. We were very lucky because she made us a delicious lunch consisting of mediterraean soup and pecan pie. For most of us, this was our very first. It was delicious but the first piece didn't come out of the pie dish too well (that's my piece).

Claire's piece seemed to come out a little more orderly

And the final shot of the day goes to the boys in matching plaid (Darin and Nico)

Comments

[nicole]

Coopers in Japan? nice work, Kat ;)

[Amy]

Nice, robo is great!

[Stefanie]

Too Cute (the robot and the plaid twins!) !!

[Andrea]

Hehe, that is soooo cute. Notice your hubby and robo
have matching hearts in the "hanging out with dad" photo.

[gleek]

hahaha! robo is ADORABLE. such a soft and squeezable robot. and mmmm, pecan pie. one of my favorites! especially with ice cream.

[jenn]

Robo is adorable and that pecan pie looks heavenly.

[Anna Dilemna]

I LOVE the Robo pics- especially the one of him on the train! Congrats on your first little guy! I want one for xmas okay? I'll call mine the Jo-bot (after me of course)

[Miss Twiss]

Another congratulations! But this one is on the growth of your family. Robo is super cute. I really enjoyed seeing pictures of all of his firsts.

[drh]

Robo is adorable!! I'm sure you had a lot of fun taking that photo of him on the train.

[Sarah]

I *heart* Robo!