After a boy’s weekend immediately followed by a a girl’s weekend, it was high time for a fun family adventure. This past Sunday, Daddy and the boys drove downtown to meet up with mommy after a night out on the town. We went Le Peep for breakfast (yum! nostalgic sigh…) We then drove to the Legoland Discovery Center north of the city. It was pretty stinkin’ cool!

Here is the entrance: giant giraffe made of legos…aweseome.

Inside, there were too many cool structures to name. R2D2 earned a pic though (p.s. all pictures were taken with my iphone since daddy packed the bag at home and the camera was not included).

The only unfortunate part of our trip was that Logan had his head eaten by a lion.

There was a model-building area where the kids could build cars and test them on three different tracks. One was a race track; the other two were obviously for crashing!

Brady thought the giant bin of duplos (bigger legos for smaller hands) was actually a bath tub.

After Legoland, we hit Ikea cause that’s always fun. The older boys tried out the playroom there while we took Brady shopping with us (thumbs down on the playroom). After Ikea, we headed towards home and Build-A-Bear. Last Valentine’s Day, the older boys made puppies at B-A-B so it was Brady’s turn. It was very difficult to get him to pick just 1 animal, but he settled on a black teddy bear.

Brady and Daddy standing in the “stuffing line”

Here, Daddy helps give the new Bear a bath. By the way, I asked the stuffer to make Brady’s bear “floppy”…which I also requested last year with the dogs (which also didn’t happen). If this is floppy, I would hate to see “standard”. I know they want the cloths to fit so you’ll buy more stuff, but I swear, no one at these stores understands the term “floppy”…isn’t that pretty standard stuffed-animal lingo here people?!

Picking a name for Brady’s new friend proved to be a challenge. The only black thing I could think of was licorice (daddy made a face). We went through Choco-bear, Puffy (Aiden’s suggestion), Peanut (to go along with Jelly Bear…like Peanut Butter and Jelly). In the end, Brady decided his name was “Paci Bear” (why am I not shocked?). Now, Brady has his 2 bears in bed with him. He snuggles them and says, “two bears!” When he carries them around the house, he holds one under each arm and does his little Brady run. It’s so stinkin’ cute!

By the way, we let Aiden and Logan each buy one thing for their build-a-bear dogs. Logan said, and rightly so, that it was Scruffy’s birthday. Scruff got a skateboard for his b-day. Aiden’s dog Scrumble got a basketball hoop. Wow…they think of every possible way to get your cash in that store!! ;) I do have to say though that Scruffy really HAS enjoyed his skateboard. Logan is quite the good daddy as well…he always makes sure his little dog wears the proper safety equipment (aka: the football helmet that goes with Scruffy’s Bear’s uniform)