Girls Day at the Mall

Ava has been to build-a-bear a few times now, and since Daddy was gone AND they were running a promo we decided to take Ava. She knew the drill, she went straight in and picked out the animal she wanted. She ended up picking out the tropical hello kitty, so we waited our turn in line to stuff the kitty.

When it was our turn, Ava picked out the kitty’s heart and opted to put it on the kitty’s head instead of inside her- so the sweet lady took extra care of the heart and placed it inside the kitty :)

If you don’t know the drill after the animal is stuffed, you give it a bath and pick out the outfit and accessories. Ava knew the drill and kept saying “Clothes! Clothes!”

The finished product :) Everyone meet Kitty!

Another thing on our agenda was to look for Ava a flower girl dress for her Uncle Brian’s wedding, so we went and had her try on several different dresses- poor thing had only had a 30 minute nap all day and was extremely tired- we were treading on thin ice! We finally found one I thought was cute and since it was on sale I went a head and bought it, I have a couple other ones that I have found online that are really cute as well, so I’ll just hang on to the receipt until I decide for sure. We kept calling it her princess dress- just to get her to try it on without having a meltdown. After trying on the last dress she just lost it- so my mom took her downstairs to watch the kids play in the play area while I paid for the dress.

Right there at the play area is a train- I’m sure you have seen them at all the malls…Ava kept pointing to it and saying “Choo! Choo!” So we paid ridiculously overpriced amount to ride it. She wasn’t too sure at first, but as we got going a little further she relaxed a little and enjoyed it.

Even though you can’t tell by the look on her face she did have fun and she did smile through most of it….and after we got off, every time we would see or hear the train she would say Choo! Choo! and look for it. She was just really really tired at this point. I will say she thought she was something else when Aunt Ro Ro and Meggie waited for us in the middle of the mall and yelled her name and waved to her.

It wasn’t long after the choo-choo ride that she had a full blown meltdown. It was about 6:00 by this point and the child is used to getting at least a 2 hour nap and she was trying to go full steam on a 30 minute nap, so we headed home. We had a great girls weekend, but we were so glad to see Adam when he got home Sunday evening.

***Thanks to my mom the brilliant photographer…I think she took about 20 pictures of the train ride and most of the were blurry and a few of them were of the floor only! :) We need to get her into some basic photography classes soon!