Today I started off the day feeling lighter and free -- thanks to the head colds that have been plaguing this house slowly disappearing and due to the fact that my reports cards are finally DONE!!
After getting some cleaning finished, I decided that it was time for Mommy and Maelyn to spend some quality time together. Last year Maelyn received a Build a Bear gift certificate and I thought that today would be the perfect day to venture out of the house. The best part was that April was able to join us on our bear adventure.
Maelyn was in teddy bear heaven -- so many stuffies to choose from!
After much deliberation, Maelyn chose a Dalmation puppy...
I thought that it was going to be difficult to get her to put the rest of the stuffies away,
but Maelyn just waved to and said goodbye to them as she held on tightly to her puppy...
Helping to stuff her puppy...
Putting the heart inside her puppy...
After he was properly stuffed, we brought him to the 'washing station,'
where Maelyn brushed him clean
Then it was time to choose an outfit...
And then we registered the puppy...
It was our first trip to Vaughan Mills Mall and I loved it! It also helped that Children's Place had a great sale on today and I was able to find Maelyn some sunglasses, dress sandals and a few summer shirts.
After shopping and our bear adventure, we went out for lunch. When the waitress came to the table, Maelyn said 'Hello! I want eat! I hungy!' April and I were killing ourselves laughing -- she was so cute!
It was a spontaneous day and we had a blast! I really loved spending time with my little girl -- she is so much fun to be around!
At the end of the day, Paul remembered that we were to have had my Dad take a family photo of us for our 12 month post placement report that we have to send to China. We don't really have many pictures of the three of us -- one of us is always taking the picture! :) We have put this off for so long that we decided to just go for it -- even though it was late and she was tired...
This is one picture of about fifty -- we were begging her to smile at the camera. After fifty pictures, this is what happened...
Hehehe...
We were finally able to get a picture that is at least semi-acceptable...now we can send in our post placement
report and our paperwork for Maelyn's adoption is done! :)
1 comment:
And love this post!!! I have to say that I really love build-a-bear too...not the prices but how much fun it is.
And your portrait looks GREAT!!!
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