building some bears

We made a stop at Build A Bear the other day.

This is a rare occurrence of course because I am usually the type of mother that walks past the Build A Bear store front as fast as humanly possible muttering something about

..."not today, everyone keep moving....".

I thought it would be a fun to surprise the kids and stop for once. Plus we needed an indoor activity because it was hot out and Jaxon gets pretty exhausted when he's out in the heat. Maggie had never been before...she was loving it of course. She was so proud that she put a heart in her puppy.

She told Ty as soon as he walked in the door from work..."Daddy, I putted a heart in there."

Here are some photos of us building our new friends. Lia worked the stuffing machine for all three animals, because Jax and Maggie didn't care for the noise it made.

Here's Jax covering the ears

Here's Maggie holding her puppy's heart in her hands

giving the critters a wash
and we're off -
all the kids chose to make a puppy

Lia named hers "Beautiful" Jax named his "Puppy" ( so creative)

and Maggie named hers "Sweetie"
look at her face...oh the excitement

headed to lunch...Maggie carried her box the entire way, she would hear nothing of me helping

and tucked in that evening they were still hanging on to them

So...yes a got a bit ripped off.
But we made it through another summer day!:)