The Adventures of Build A Bear

Jake, Liz and the boys came down in March for a weekend visit. It was close to Josh's birthday, so we took him to Build A Bear to make his very own bear. He was pretty excited about going, and said he wanted to paint the eyes on his bear. Even though we told him the bears already had eyes, he still kept talking about painting the eyes on. But it gets worse; the minute we told him to pick out his bear he ran for the ugly green St. Patrick's day bear with four leaf clovers all over it. We quickly tried to divert him, but as you can see in the picture, he is still pointing at it. We said maybe he should pick a different one, so he went for the "kitty" with pink ears, and Jake said in my ear, "he's NOT getting that cat." But my question is, why IS there a cat in "Build A BEAR"? Anyway, we practically had to pick his bear out for him by steering him in front of the normal bears and telling him to pick one of them.

The thing about this place is, there's not really that much the kids get to do to "build" their bears. Here Josh is pushing the pedal that fills the bear with stuffing. And it kind of scared him because it made a loud noise, so he kept stopping.

But obviously he was having fun anyway!

Here he gets to give the bear a bath by brushing its fur.

Then comes the picking out of the "outfit". This got a little sticky because he wanted Woody, then Buzz, then Batman.............we tried not to influence too much here, since we had been kind of overbearing (no pun intended) concerning which bear he should pick. He finally settled on Batman.

Cute little Joshy with the finished product.

When Josh and I went to name his bear, I asked him what he wanted to name it and he just insisted that he wanted to name it Batman. So, Batman it is.

Bampa kept Charlie entertained with his tickling. Charlie is really ticklish!

It was a super fun time with Josh. But I really think if I had just drawn a bear on a piece of cardboard and let him paint the eyes on it he would have had just as much fun! But that wouldn't have been as much fun for me.

After that we went to show Liz some of the hotels that she hadn't seen before. Here we are at the Belagio. They have the coolest flower gardens there.

Josh is giving us his best tough guy look

We had such a fun day with everyone, and a fun weekend soaking in the spa, having a big breakfast, and watching a movie. Those two little grandsons bring us so much joy and make us laugh. We hope they'll come visit us again soon!