BUILD A BEAR WORKSHOP!!!

So the boys love to go to Chuck E. Cheese when we go on "vacation" to Mesa. This time I thought, what does Chuck E. Cheese really have? Games. Spend money on ok pizza. Walk away with some cheap prize that is going to get broken within hours of getting home. My mom had mentioned a few times that it would be fun to take the boys there. Well we've seen the commericals a bunch and I got to thinking...how much fun would they have if we went to Build A Bear Workshop. I looked it up on the internet to see where the closest one was to my parents house. My friend Kristine had said she'd taken her daughter to one in Chandler. Low a behold there is one right down the street from her house in Gilbert. The San Tan Village. It is a really cool area with all kinds of shops.
Do you know how stressful it can be to take 4 boys ages 7 to 18 months to BABW on your own???? Ok Yes I did it to myself and Actually, it was mostly Spencer that was the handful. He was fine until his diaper started to leak and we all had to go into the good sized restroom to fix that.
The boys really were patient as they waited to get their animals stuffed. The ONE lady that was working was very sweet and told them that since they had waited so patiently so they would get a special prize at the end. And they did. Pin, notebook, coloring book and poster.
It was funny watching them try to convince me to buy the bears all these different accesories. I told them that this trip all they could get was a T-shirt and next time they could get other things. It all worked out well.
And they were very pleased. I was very impressed with the whole BABW attitude and ceramony that they do when they put the hearts in the animals. SOO Cute! We called my Aunt Carol when we were driving home and told her we found a new fun place to go. She was very excited and said they'll have to check it out when they come for Christmas. The boys are really looking forward to that.