the rogers family life as 3 ...: Build A Bear with cousin Rylie

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Build A Bear with cousin Rylie

To celebrate cousin Rylie's 3rd birthday, we went to Build A Bear Workshop! It was Kendall's (and our) first time to Build A Bear ... and it was as awesome (or maybe even more-so) than I'd imagined the experience would be. An experience that she will want to have again ... pretty soon!

For the party, we had our own Build A Bear party leader that helped each of the kids get to each station to make their special new bear. First, everyone picked out the bear (animal) they wanted to make ... oh the choices ... there were sooo many cute bears, dogs, bunny rabbits (and cats, if you like cats). Kendall finally settled on a pink & white teddy bear with sprinkles on all four paws and her ears and a special sprinkled cookie in one of her paws (shocker that she picked pink, I know! but she really did pick it out herself and could not be persuaded by anything else). Then, each bear had to be named ... Daddy kind of helped her with this ... a little team work ... they thought of a few cute options, and she decided on "Sprinkles" ... she was nearly named "pink bear" but since she already has pink bear at home, we talked her into picking a different name for this pink bear. So, Sprinkles it is!

Kendall & Sprinkles with the big Birthday Girl, Rylie & her pink kitty cat

My sweet pea

All lined up and ready to stuff their bears! Kendall looooved hanging out with her cousins, especially Ashleigh ... and Ashleigh was just the sweetest to her, looking out for her and helping her out with anything she possibly could.

At the bear stuffing machine ... putting in their bear's heart

They each passed around a special heart & chanted "stuff that bear" during each child's turn ... everyone did really good waiting patiently for each child's turn. Kendall loved getting her turn to go to the stuffing machine and pressing on the pedal to stuff Sprinkles.

Next, the party bunch moved to the bath tubs to wash their new bears ... Kendall & cousin Tyler take their turn. Then the final step ... picking out an outfit ... more choices to make ... Kendall finally got it picked out and dressed.