American Girl Doll Night Out!

A new American Girl store opened up in Seattle, well actually it's at the Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood which is only 10 minutes from us, but they call it the Seattle store. Anyway, my friend told me about it opening up a few months ago so we went online to make dinner reservations at the Bistro. You can even bring your doll to come eat with you. Kate was so excited to go and take Kimberly (her "fake" american girl doll until she gets older and can have a real one) and I was excited to see the new store and all the cute dolls.

My Mom made Kate a few princess dresses for Christmas for Kimberly so Kate thought of dressing up in her cinderella dress and matching her doll. Right before this, I had taken Kate to the urgent care to have her pinky toe checked out. She had cut it pretty good last week and I tried glueing it, but it wasn't getting better and I was afraid of infection. So sure enough there was a little bit of infection so we got some topical antibiotic. She has to wear a sock to keep it covered with the medicine on so she got to wear socks with her fancy shoes. ;)

We got to choose another doll to join us for dinner. Kate named her Ally. Ally had just gotten her hair done at the doll salon, they have one in the store, and it looked so cute. I should have combed out Kimberly's hair before because it was atrocious.

Kate enjoying a strawberry sparkler. She thought it was delicious. She says, "don't you wish you had gotten this Mom?"

A picture of Kate feeding Kimberly, they brought out little cups and plates for the dolls.

I got a panini, turkey on sourdough bread, and Kate got macaroni and cheese with "lots of cheddar cheese" and a fruit kabob. Kate says, "this is so cheesey, do you wish you had this Mom?"

Kate enjoying her strawberry sundae. She saw other people getting one and was begging to get one. They ran out of whipped cream so she didn't get any on her sundae and that's her favorite part!!! Because the service was SO slow and we had to wait 20 mins to be seated (we had reservations and they were running behind) we got a free picture of us in an American Girl frame and a free dessert.

Kate posing with Kanani, a new doll. We went shopping after dinner and it took Kate a while to pick out some outfits. She had birthday money that she has been saving for this. She finally chose a wedding dress with a veil, shoes and a purse with an adorable rosette on it. Then she chose silk pajamas with fuzzy slippers. They have some cute clothes! During check-out (and during decision time) Kate started crying because I used all her birthday money (and then some of mine!) to buy the clothes. We had a lengthy (and heated) discussion on the way home of why she was saving her money and how come she was throwing a fit about it. I wasn't too happy about her behavior either.

Now she wants a real American Girl doll, a cheerleading outfit with pom poms, a bed with a quilt, mattress and pillow for her doll and a ballerina outfit. I'm sure the list will get longer. I told her to start saving her money!