Build a Bear Workshop

Saturday Melanie, Cara and I went to Des Monies to drop off a van full of book to the Iowa Right to Life. Every year one in the spring and one in the fall, the IRLC has a book sale. All the proceeds to the sell goes to Pregnancy centers all over Iowa. If you would like to hear more about this story go to here.








After we dropped off the books and did some other errands Cara, Craig and I took Melanie to build a bear. Melanie received money from my parents for her birthday and she wanted to do something special with it. So we took her to Jordon Creek Mall, I loved this mall.

Here is Melanie picking out the bear that she wanted. She choose this cute little tan bear. They had so much to choose from. I was so impressed with the selections.


Here the build a bear worker is filling up the bear with stuffing, Melanie is actually pressing the foot pedal to let all the stuffing in her bear. It was interesting.












The worker had Melanie do several things, I am not sure what she is doing in the this picture. Melanie is doing some kind of dance or something.









In this picture Melanie is warming the heart, rubbing the heart on her face and several other fun activities to get the little heart a pumping before they place it in the bear. I wonder, does God hold each one of our hearts before he places it in our chest?


Now Melanie is going to shop for some clothes for her new bear. She pretty much knew what she wanted before we got there. So she is focused on what she had planned.












This is Craig helping Melanie with the bear. There was so many items to choose from. I could not help but feel overwhelmed. Just imagine how a small child feels. WOW.

Melanie almost has her little bear dressed. He is coming along really good.





Well, look it there, I would like to introduce Mario Ross, She was so excited about this little guy. She had loads of fun, but she is not done yet.










Now she had to get on the computer and type in his information for the birth certificate and to register him in the build a bear website.

These workers are singing happy birthday to Melanie and Mario. It was pretty sweet, then they place her bear in a box and the birth certificate and they were off.

Here is Melanie all smiles about her new friend and making him. This was one special birthday for her. She is now really excited to have a new little friend. Melanie also was able to spend the day with cousin Craig. It was so neat to see the oldest grandchild hang with the youngest. They sure love each other. All in all, it was lots of fun and she paid for all of it herself. She loved it.