Brooke and Audrey: Part 2: March 2015 - Our last days in Naperville

We had a couple days off from school at the end of February. The girls had a Daisy field trip where they took their AG dolls and had a tea party to learn manners. The next day, the girls and I decided to make one last trip into the city to hit the Shedd aquarium. It was SUPER cold that day, but I insisted that we all wear just a fleece so that it wouldn't be a huge hassle hauling around our coats. Poor A never warmed up, so wore her hat the whole time inside!

We tried to match their hair to their American Girl Dolls....hair is clearly not my strong point!

Girls selfie in front of some fish (not pictured here)

Another girls selfie as we were waiting for the dolphin show.

One last shot of the city...

Well this is really the last shot of the city...

But then I saw that Lake Michigan was all covered and it looked so pretty, so we took one last - for real - shot of the city.

Then, on a spur of a moment idea, the girls decided to get their ears pierced!! We were heading to Claire's to buy a replacement pair of clip-on earrings. I asked the girls if they were interested in getting their ears pierced instead and Brooke jumped all over that!

She had no fear and jumped up and got it done! All she said was Ouch when they did it. I was super impressed!

So then I asked Audrey if she wanted to do it to. And she said absolutely NO! So we left and went to do some additional shopping. Then in the middle of Target Audrey decided that she did indeed want to get her ears done too. So we headed back over to the mall....

Now this picture makes it look like it went great. That is not in fact what happened at all! In summary, I was the mom holding her screaming daughter in her lap and forcing her to get her ears pierced - through bribery and sheer force of holding her down. Not a great moment.

But she was all smiles before we even left the store...and Audrey was so glad that she got to go to school on Monday and show off her ears with Brooke!

Here are some pictures of our friends during our last days in Naperville.