New Outfit for Coconut / Rainy Day Mall Trip

With the rain coming down, we figured it would be a good day to run up to the mall. We had two missions to accomplish: new shoes for the girls and a new outfit for Coconut's first visit to school.  Tuesday is "Bring Your Teddy Bear to School" day and needless to say, Lily is quite excited. Show and Tell is a big deal and we would be bad parents if we didn't let Coconut get a new outfit. So, we all got our rain coats on (and one set of rain boots), a feat that actually took longer than the drive there. To our surprise, everyone else pretty much had the same mall-trip idea.

First stop ... Build-A-Bear to get a new outfit. Picture below is Lily posing next to one of Coconut's sisters (yes, they don't change their bear model lines).

Second stop ... Shoe store! The Stride-Rite store was packed like we have never seen it before. One look at the 20 kids and 2 workers, we all knew it was best to just walk right past. But in true Check Family fashion, wouldn't be a mall trip without a trip to the carousel and a pretzel/lemonade combo from Auntie Anne's. Apparently carousel was little too fast for Em, seems like she is hanging on for dear life (she was just a little tired and "mommy-clingy").

Like we said before though, no trip to the mall is complete unless you get that pretzel and lemonade. Quietest the girls were the whole trip. Got to love them!