Valentine's Day at Build-A-Bear

I hope you all had a nice Valentine's Day. We really had a nice time celebrating together as a family. When Charlie got home we took off to the mall to eat at the Old Spaghetti Factory...yum! Claire ate a ton too, which is always a gamble...you never know how that girl is going to eat at restaurants! We told Claire that we would let her get an animal after we ate. She decided (hmmm...with the help of Daddy who liked the cat the best) to get...a cat!

so proud of her "Valetine's hair"

So after an exciting hand-washing experience in the bathroom (those hand dryers are always hard to pull Claire away from) we walked to Build-A-Bear. I was excited to have a $5 off coupon!

Claire enjoyed taking the hangers of dresses and dancing with them...I think she had to find the perfect twirl before she knew what to put on her cat. Needless to say, we got a few snickers over her dancing in the middle of the store with a hanger! But, she chose the perfect pink ballet dress. It came with a matching bow and pink ballet shoes.

Daddy helped dress the cat.

I tied the shoes...those were out of Daddy's expertise.

Claire then danced with her cat...

And danced some more...
We did eventually have to stop her from knocking people over. Man, she is in her own world while twirling!

She held the "house" for her cat the whole way to the car. They gave her free candy too. The conversation in the car went like this...
Claire: Cat sleeping in house. Shoes on. Dress on. Bow on. Eat candy!
Me: Do you love your cat, Claire?
Claire: Pink dress. Pink Shoes. Cat sleeping. Eat candy!

Ahh...so fun!