Arianna's first car ride!

We went to the Aurora Outlet mall over the weekend and I will not go there in a long, loooooong time. It was crowded and not many stores that I like except for Lindt chocolates and the Swarovski Co. (but too expensive to buy usually). This time I actually bought a Steiff bear with a swarovski crystal ornament for 56 dollars which is actually a deal. The bear was too darn cute, and it will be for Arianna eventually.
The reason that we went is to buy one gift for the gift exchange with my family. It so happens that the store that we were looking for is either at this mall or in Michigan City. Anyway, while shopping for some yummy chocolates, Mike decided to take Arianna to one of the kid's cars. Here goes the quarter and this is what happened:



It was more challenging this time with Arianna because she wanted to walk too. I mean I don't blame her, she can do it now. So, we took turns while my sister or me went into stores. She was very happy and was smiling to the people passing by when she was let "loose". And those are the pictures of us happily leaving the mall.

PlayTown

So, we decided to go to the mall where they have the section for kids to play. We wanted to see if Arianna was interested or not in those kind of toys. When we got there, she sat by our legs for awhile, just looking around; there were kids, but it was not that busy.

Then, one kid was smiling at her and I think that got her moving towards one of the cars. He was really nice to Arianna and played for a bit (there were other kids that were not very nice, and you had to keep an eye).


Then, she went everywhere! Especially to this toy on the wall, where you can flip the pieces back and forth. It was hard to get to the toy because this lady had her stroller almost in front of it, even though we were squeezed in there playing, she did not move it. I kept trying to go somewhere else, but Arianna really wanted to play with that, and she kept walking back every time. Eventually the lady left and we were able to play, but Arianna was interested in something else by then ;)

She was interested in driving her first car! She sat there for awhile, and drove us to Indiana. I imagine that one day that may not be so far fetch either.

Then, she wanted to climb in top of the turtle, so I helped her. And when she was on top, she was fine for a few minutes, then she wanted to come down.

We also noticed that seeing other kids made her try to walk even more. There were three girls playing "your it", and running around screaming and were very excited that all the younger kids, started to follow them, including Arianna.


So, after about 20 minutes, we decided to leave. Too many kids had come into the place and was getting really crowded. Although the biggest problem was not how many they were, the problem was some of the kids that came by (2 especially) were very mean to the other kids and he was interested in the same thing Arianna was playing with so I did not want to risk Arianna getting hurt. Besides she was getting tired and quite frankly we were too. We were some "old timers" by comparison!
All in all, we had fun and Arianna loved it. I think she will like it even more when she can run!