On Thursday morning we had the honor of going to Build A Bear to help do the media Kick off for their Stuffed with Hugs event where on May 19th 200 bears from every store ( a total of 50,000) will be donated to orphans worldwide through Joint Council on International Children's Services. The Austin FCC will be getting 400 of those bears (to Tyla's and my garages no less) to distribute to local orphanages and to China.
Riley's Kindergarten class got to be the first group in Austin to make them. Tyla first read all the kids A Mother for Choco and then they all got to make their bears. They were so cute and so excited about this field trip. I think the highlight for some of them was the van ride to the mall!
There was one TV station there filming, so needless to say we were a tad disappointed at the turnout and by the fact that Tyla never actually got interviewed, but the Build a Bear staff was great and the kids learned a great lesson in giving back. (We also learned a lesson in giving back money to Build a Bear after Quinn made herself a birthday bear)
Turns out that Riley did get her 10 seconds of fame as they did feature her at the end of the story that went on the news. You can see the footage at the following link:
http://www.kvue.com/video/index.html?nvid=145085
Stay tuned to see how we end up distributing all those bears!
Holly
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