Nockinbird Fun Time

After cheer practice, the Nockinbirds, plus Molly and Aunt Toni went to Little Miss's school social at CiCi's.  She does so looooove the mac 'n cheese pizza.  And cinnamon rolls.

Yesterday, we went to our first Build A Bear Workshop birthday party.  Aunt Toni hostessed a party for Keala's fourth birthday.  Oh. My.

The calm before the storm.

Don't they look cute?  Two sets of twins in there.  Oh, my. 

They've picked their bears--now off to the stuffing machine.  I don't know where they find people to work at this place--especially the ones who are in charge of the parties.  Amazingly cheerful young people.

The hearts and wishes have been tucked in, now for the stuffing of the bears.

The bears have been stuffed, now to the "bath"!

So "unbearably" cute.  I'm not sure how our party leader got the others to pretend to take a nap.

All the bears were declared to be girls, and all but two were named for their creators--Little Miss's is named Brownie (and by the time we got home he was a boy who liked pink shirts).

Lots of bear-kissing going on.  Shortly after followed the bear-pummeling of the (good-natured) birthday girl.  Again, how the party leader reined things in was impressive.

The March of The Bears Upon The Heads.

The ringing of the birthday bell.  Now the bears were stuffed and it was time for party goodies in the food court...once we got everyone herded upstairs.

Aunt Toni made everyone their own flowerpot of "dirt" complete with a flower and gummy earthworms.

We were missing the good-natured party leader from Build A Bear by this point.

The "chinese" yo-yos were a hit, and used for hitting as well.  The tables around us cleared very quickly as the sugar-high kicked in.

Lolo didn't get any "dirt," so she made a grab for a party guest's little brother's snackies.  He looks worried.

Then it was time to schlepp all the supplies/kids/bears/loot out to the cars.  Sugar-highs still in high gear.

The cutest little snuggle bear.

We had started out with a new look for the party, but by the time we got there, we were back to pigtails.

Also before the party, we found the Legos store.  Wow.  We loved the Lego buffet wall.

Working our way back to Saturday now, Loverboy had a UT game in Austin, so Little Miss and I braved a Build and Grow on our own.  Thank goodness it was an easy project.  I prefer to work behind the scenes/camera and leave the manual labor to Loverboy.

The project was a dog leash hanger--too cute!

We celebrated  our building success with lunch out with Molly and SarahBeth at Chili's.  I recommend their chicken and green chile soup--yum.  Then we hit the Holly Daze Craft Bazaar at the convention center in town...let's just say I'm glad we only had to pay to get in with a can of food.  Lots of Tupperware, Scentsy and Homemade Gourmet stuff.  Some big bead jewelry.  Cowgirl clothes.  It was actually easy to not spend any money.  Though I did like some of the new Tupperware...

And what's a Saturday without a trip to our favorite library?  My baby looks so grown up, reading, actually reading to herself.