After we took the pictures downtown, we headed over to Burlington Coat Factory. Raeanne tried on probably 20 different dresses. She is sooo hard to fit. She could still wear a 5T in the waist but she is sooo long legged that she wears a 7. Of course, all the dresses she found that she liked were size 8. I let her try them on, and needless to say, we didn't buy any. They looked like they were falling off of her. Even some of the size 7's are going to end up at Mrs. Annie's to get taken up in the waist and shoulders. We ended up buying her 5 outfits. Miss Reagan came home with 3 outfits herself. She thought everything she tried on (in her words...) were "Fabulous". Where she learns these words I will never know.
After Burlington Coat Factory we headed to Crabtree. The shoe store was our first target. Reagan wanted every pair of shoes she tried on. She thought they were gorgeous. I did buy her a pair of black patten leather Sunday Shoes. Now, Raeanne got 2 pairs of shoes. a pair of white Sunday shoes and some Chucks. YES, those shoes that were popular when I was in middle school are now popular again. She got a black pair of chucks. Oh My is all I can say.
By the time we finished in the shoe store we were all hungry, so we conquered the food court. Of course the kids wanted McDonald's and I wanted Cheese Cake Factory. McDonald's won. Besides, they probably wouldn't have liked anything the Cheese Cake Factory would have.
After lunch I took them down to Build A Bear. Reagan is about the age Raeanne was the first time I took her to Build-A-Bear. It took Reagan a while to figure out how to do Build A Bear. She wanted to take the Bear on display. She just couldn't understand that you were to pick out which one you want out of the bin. I thought she was going to go postal with me and I was beginning to wonder if this was a bright idea. I finially walked her around the store and showed her all the different stations and how and what each station did. She understood then and she was ready. Raeanne had already picked out which bear she wanted and then helped Reagan pick out her bear. They both picked out a Jonas Brothers voice box to put in their bears, lucky me, the voice box plays 4 different Jonas Brothers Songs.... They then picked out the hearts for the bears, kissed them and made a wish on them, had the bears stuffed, the fluffed, and then they started picking out clothes for the bear. Can't have a naked bear can we? With all said and done, I think I spent waaaaayyyy more than I had intended.
Well, after having sooo much fun and spending more than I had intended, we headed back to Snow Hill. The girls were so excited and tired too. Reagan fell asleep and Raeanne was excited about her chucks. (had to put them on in the car on the way home....)
I have never felt like I have been able to "spoil" my kids like this before and really needed this time together. Sometimes I feel really guilty about doing my massage work at night and on Saturdays and not spending time with them. I hope they won't expect me to do this everytime I have a Saturday off...they will be mighty disappointed.