Build-A-Bear!!!

I've wanted to take the boys to Build-A-Bear for-ever! I can remember walking past one in the Florida Mall in 2004 or 2005 and thinking that I would love it but Ed would kill me. Especially since at that time, the boys didn't even touch their stuffed animals. Well, my patience paid off!! For a few years now, the boys each have a few favorite animals...mostly dogs. Max's are Pluto and something else I can't think of right now. (What kind of mother am I?) Nolen's dogs are named Pongo and Pupdate (I don't know where he got that). A few weeks ago we wandered into Build-A-Bear and watched a girl get her turkey stuffed. Isn't that funny. The boys stood completely still and stared at the process. I told them that when they had each saved up $10 we could come back and get an animal. Well, Nana helped out and sent each boy some money and a coupon to Build-A-Bear! Yay Nana! We went yesterday and the boys loved it! They each chose the same dog - it really was the cutest dog. They sort of wanted a sound but I told Nolen he would have to give me $3 from his piggy bank when we got home so he skipped it. Here they are getting the bears stuffed and putting in the heart.



After the dogs were stitched up, it was time to go over to the computers and input some info for their birth certificates. The boys were very cute and did most of it themselves. I typed our address (in case the dog gets lost he has a bar code sewn inside him so he can be traced back to us) just to speed things along. It was very fun! They boys carried those dogs around for the rest of our mall trip.

Here they are standing in a pretty long line to see Santa. We must have stood there for 30 minutes but the boys were convinced that this was necessary (and I hadn't gotten a Santa pic yet this year so that was ok with me). They help their dogs the whole time we stood in line.

Max is really checking him out. Max's dog's name is Scruffy. Nolen's dog is Bolt.

Telling Santa what they want for Christmas. It looks like it would have been a good picture but the cheapest Santa picture you can buy costs $20!!! What's up with that??? I have Christmas shopping to do people!