Hook'Em the Bear

I had heard about this new Lego store that had 8ft Toy Story characters built completely out of Legos, so I thought Joshua would love to see them and enjoy looking at all the Legos. So, on Saturday morning we headed down to Barton Creek Mall which is about 20 to 30 mins away to the Lego store. I am not going to lie I think I was more excited to see these Lego characters than Joshua. We walk into the Lego store and to much disappointment the 8ft characters were nowhere to be found. Apparently we missed them by a day! They had just been there for the grand opening that was a month ago and they were on there way to Detroit for another grand opening. BUMMER!!! I am actually thankful that Joshua still doesn't understand some of the things we take him too, so therefore when there is a disappointment like this one, he is still good to go. He was all over that Lego store. They did have some really cool displays and Legos. So we left the store and Dan said that we needed to do something else for Joshua, because we didn't drive all the way down to this mall just to leave after being there for 10 mins. So, Dan decided that we should take Joshua to Build-A-Bear. We both thought he would really like that, since he loves to see how things work and get put together. So below is the picture story of how Hook'Em the Bear came to be.

Joshua trying to see which one he wanted from outside the store. He eventually went in and chose a bear.

About to stuff the bear. He didn't care too much for the stuffing, he wanted to push the buttons on the side(4 little heart buttons in the pic)

watching the lady stuff the bear

choosing the perfect heart for his bear

helping put the heart inside the bear

"Bath time"!! This was Joshua's favorite part. He washed the bear 3 times until we finally had to pick him up and move him to the next station

Time to choose the name and make the birth certificate.

Meet Hook'Em the Bear!!!

Joshua loves "Hook'Em"!!!(at the time he was playing and didn't want to take a picture with the bear, so this is the best I could get.)

So, that is the story of how Hook'Em the Bear came to be! Joshua loves this bear. He sleeps with it, does the hokey poky with him and covers him up when it is time to go "night, night". Last night Joshua told Dan to take the shirt off of Hook'Em because it was time to go to sleep. I guess he thought since he has to change clothes to go to bed so should Hook'Em.