Build a Bear...again!

My boys and I have the best aunt in the world. After we went to the Build-a-Bear Workshop the first time we called Aunt Carol and told her how much fun this place was. She said that at Christmas we could take a trip down there. So Friday morning after Christmas we headed down to Gilbert San Tan village. Aunt Carol, Aunt Donna, all 4 boys, Papa, Daddy & Mommy went. The boys really wanted a new animal and Aunt Carol said that was fine. What ever they wanted. COOL!! Ammon picked out a ragged dog,(and Aunt Carol did too) Talmage picked out a brown bear, Garrett a black bear, Michael picked out the Velvet bear for me and for Spencer we weren't going to get him one but then he woke up. So he got a soft bunny.
Ammon is great at naming the animals. So he was very helpful with Spencer's bunny's name Hoppy. His dog is Raggs, Talmage picked out a Batman outfit for his bear so he became Batman Chocolate, I like to call him Bruce when it's off, Garrett's bear got a great winter vest; we named his Blackie. And Michael named my teddy bear Cuddles. It was busy at the BABW, but fun. Gotta remember to leave the baby at home. He is the hard one to deal with. But in the end it was fun. Afterwards, we said goodbye to our aunts and Papa took Spencer back to the house so that the 3 boys, Michael & I could go see "Bedtime Stories". It was funny and we all enjoyed it.

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.