Kohl Children’s Museum – Playdate! (and teasers!)
- November 6, 2009 - posted by chicago wedding photographer nate mathai

categories: Personal
tags: ann arbor michigan, baby alyssa, chicago illinois, chicago wedding photographers, christ church of oak brook, cici's pizza, elmhurst college, elmhurst illinois, glenview illinois, jaimy and sijin, kohl children's museum, lombard illinois, millenium park, nate mathai, rolly and ben, shaina and aby, st. thomas mar thoma church, susie and shawn, troy michigan

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Earlier this week, my wife and I took my niece and her nephew out for a date (2 children under 5 years of age…her idea). These two play together are all the time, so we figured it wouldn’t be too difficult to watch them both for a few hours- and they were better than expected! (Oh, I also just brought my 35 f2 and 50 f1.8 lenses with me…it was fun being limited)

After picking them up from school, we headed to Cici’s Pizza Buffet for lunch. Alexis loved her garlic bread and Jaden was a huge fan of the mac and cheese pizza. I enjoyed it all, too. :)

This was my first time at the Kohl Children’s Museum, and I was pretty impressed. It’s pretty much a world scaled down for their size, yet still can be entertaining for the adults. We hit up a Potbelly where they were able to make sandwiches for us (pretend ones, obviously), they went shopping in the grocery store, and had some fun with both water and instruments. They were definitely able to keep themselves entertained, so we just needed to keep an eye on them and pretend every now and then too…if this is what it takes to raise children, I think I’m ready. :)

I’ll leave you with a few words of wisdom I was given at the end of our journey through the museum:

PS, I’ve got some more goodness getting ready for the blog soon. Here’s a glimpse to what’s coming up!

Rolly & Ben’s Wedding at Christ Church of Oak Brook in Oak Brook, Illinois

Baby Alyssa’s Baptism at the St. Thomas Mar Thoma Church in Lombard, Illinois

Jaimy & Sijin’s E-Session at Millenium Park in Chicago, Illinois

Susie & Shawn’s E-Session in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Shaina & Aby’s E-Session at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois

Susie & Shawn’s Wedding in Troy, Michigan

Apple Picking at Apple Holler in Sturtevant, Wisconsin
- November 2, 2009 - posted by chicago wedding photographer nate mathai

categories: Personal
tags: apple donuts, apple holler, apple picking, chicago wedding photographers, date night, Personal, sturtevant, wisconsin

interested in booking? Head over to the the contact page or shoot me an email to info@natemathai.com

This past weekend the wife and I decided to make a quick trip up to Apple Holler in Sturtevant, Wisconsin for some good ol’ apple picking.  Actually, the main purpose for the trip really was just to get some apple donuts.  When we were in undergrad, there was an apple orchard near the campus which people would go to all the time, but this trip to Wisconsin was about half the distance so we settled.

This was probably the most helpful map I’ve ever seen.

What, how do you guys go apple picking?

OK, so it cost about $40 to get a bag and go pick apples straight from the trees. It’s a pretty big bag, but we really did care for that many apples. If you go with a group of people, it’s more worthwhile as you split that cost as well as all the apples. So instead, we just picked from the bins outside before getting our apple donuts. I think it was just as fun.

Welcome to November everybody!