...and then there were two!

Shopping with Bear

Shopping is really not DN's cup of tea and although I'm gutted, I don't blame the little guy. Everything looks boring and it's out of his reach anyway. So what's a toddler to do? DN often chooses to announce his annoyance to all and sundry by...

(a) whining
(b) wailing
(c) hijacking our stroller and pushing it into other people's legs
(d) lying face down on the floor in the shopping centre
and his favourite, (e) all of the above, but on repeat and shuffle mode

I decided that enough was enough and decided to stop shopping altogether (yeah right!) buy him his own little stroller to keep him busy as we shopped. We had a feeling this would work because he's always hankering after our stroller and trolley. And it DID work!

We popped into ELC to buy this blue stroller. And since this bear was 50% off, we got it too. Anyway, I much prefer this to a spooky doll with those "automatic open-close eyes". Eeek.

It was a build-your-own-bear (version 1.0... no rocket science here) and it came with 2 bags of stuffing, a jumper, shorts and a really dehydrated looking bear.

I had to help DN with the stuffing. Now he knows how bears are made!

Here's the maker hugging the finished product in glee! We asked DN to name his bear (because the kit comes with a birth certificate for the furry one) and he said, "Bear!" -_- Ohhh-kay.

The happy bub and his happy bear. We shopped for 3 hours that day. Woot!

Since then, DN has been taking good care of Bear. Bear sleeps with him every night now and he occasionally gets a grape from DN (ha!) .

I've always had this romantic notion that DN will grow to love a stuffed toy that will sleep with him, eat with him, play with him etc... When he first started dragging Brownie around, I thought Brownie was it. Then Brownie was forgotten and tossed aside. :( Maybe Bear is the THE ONE!