Building a Bear for Baby

Nana and I took the kids to Build a Bear Workshop today to build a Smokey his first teddy bear. Hayden LOVES stuffed animals so we thought he'd love it, but we were wrong. Claire has never been a big fan of stuffed animals and she LOVED it. Go figure. They made themselves a bear (named Honey Bear, after the Berenstain Bears' baby sister) and a monkey (named George, of course), and they picked out another bear for Smokey. We recorded messages in Smokey's bear that will scare him to death one day, and we dubbed him "Clayden," after his big brother and sister.

Hayden and his monkey carcass await stuffing
 
Claire inspects the fluffing job on Honey Bear and Clayden
 
Totally skeptical about this process
 
Showing off Honey Bear
 
Hugs for Honey Bear and Clayden
 
Hayden holds tight to George