This morning I got out the clay that I bought months and months ago to make Zoe handprints. It's a really great clay that air dries or can be fired in a kiln. It dries white and can be painted and sanded and it says it doesn't shrink or crack when it dries. The process wasn't really so messy until I let Zoe hold the little cup with some water in it. Fortunately clay cleans up super easy and washes out of clothes. And art is messy sometimes.
At the pottery studio we went to they will make pieces similar to this with your kids for $45. Yikes! This was more of a $4 project at home.
I want to do footprints sometime, too.
Since Zoe will be 18 months on June 20 I'm trying to do those milestone things that you do. There's a place on the wall in her room where we're going to keep track of how tall she is.

We've had lots of warm, sunny days so we went to an awesome park with Auntie Constance the other day. The park also serves as a playground for a neighborhood school that we suspect may specialize in foreign languages. There were loads of little kids for Zoe to watch during recess. She spent lots of time in the swing, interrupted a couple's picnic, squealed at the dogs, said "hi" a lot, walked barefoot in the soft grass, and danced to some bad acoustic guitar music. It's amazing how many people can hang out in a park in the middle of the day. Thanks recession! Although, Seattle is just that kind of place.