Build-A-Bear

My little one goes to a fantabulous pre-school nearby. My oldest (now in Kindergarten) went there throughout all of his preschool years as well. I met the owners before they started their pre-school, and when I heard about what they were going to do in their school, I knew it was going to be the best preschool for our kids. One of the things that they do every year is build their "class pet". This is done on a field trip to Build-A-Bear. If you aren't familiar with that place, you pick out your unstuffed animal, and you can: stuff it, put a sound in it, put a heart in it, give it a bath, name it, and clothe it. The place even has car seats for the completed stuffies. :) Its really, a cute place. So, all the preschoolers in the class come here with the teachers. My little one's class picked out a teddy bear that has eyebrows- soooooo cute! They all got to help create him. They decided to name him "Henry". Yes, how creative huh! I guess he had to have a more sophisticated name with having eyebrows and all you know. :) I am proud to let you all know my sweet boy is a man shopper at age 4 already. In the middle of making our bear creation, my sweety says "aren't we done yet?" So, I think he will turn out to be one of those men that you see in the store hanging out in the front waiting for his significant other on a bench. You know the one that stares at everyone like "hurry this up so I can get the heck outta here".

Now that he is made, each child in the class will get an opportunity to take him home and spend a week with him. We get to write a story in his book and my preschooler shares it with his class. We can't wait!!!