“Rockin’ With The Chipettes”…Sort of

Lance was out of town for work this weekend and I wanted to do something fun with the girls.  I read online that the Chipettes were coming to the mall.  The article said that you could rock out with the Chipettes while they teach you the dance steps to their favorite song.  They girls LOVE the “All The Single Ladies” song that the Chipettes sang in the movie {I don’t think they have any idea who Beyonce is and if you ask them who sings “all the single Ladies” they will say the Chipettes} so I thought it would be fun to go.  When we got there they were setting up and the girls were pretty excited.

I got there early thinking that there would be a huge crowd {not to sure why} so we ended up waiting for quite a while, I guess the audio wasn’t working so great for them or something because you could tell that it was taking them a little longer to set-up than they wanted.  The girls were good sports having to wait that long. 

Okay, this isn’t your typical “awe, I could just eat them up” picture.  There are no smiles and they look bored {which they were because we had been waiting about 40 minutes by this point} but I love it because this is how they chose to wait…with Gwynie sitting on Gracie’s lap.  So as their Mom this picture does make me say “awe, I could just eat them up”!!!

After about 45 minutes the event starts to show signs of life!  They started handing out balloons and I could see the back-up dancers beginning to warm up.

They started the song over one more time and out came the back-up dancers to get everyone pumped up.

After about 2 minutes of dancing they introduced themselves as “Brittany” and “Jeanette” {What?!?}.   Yep, these two ladies were going to be the Chipettes.  I am guessing that “Eleanor” called in sick. They were lovely girls who were very talented dancers but I think you can tell by the expressions and body language of the other people in the picture that this is NOT what we were expecting.  I don’t know, I guess I had pictured big furry costumes and the whole bit.  It was a free event to promote the movie being released to DVD, so I am not too sure why I thought it would be some big production.

We hung around for their first performance.  The Chipettes invited all the kiddos to join them to learn the routine, but the girls weren’t feeling it.  {Funny side note: they were requiring the parents to sign a waiver if your child wanted to dance and learn the routine. I am sure you have to do that sort of thing these days, but it just seemed silly to me}. I think if I came across the event while already at the mall it would have been great, but to know about it for a couple of weeks and to change plans around to make sure we could be there…well, it left a bit to be desired.

We left the show and went around the corner to Build-a-Bear.  We have never made a build-a-bear before.  I guess Gracie made one at a party once, but Gwynie had never been.

             

Build-a-bear was a hit! They kept with the Chipmunk theme and Gracie picked “Alvin” and Gwynie picked “Brittany”.  We finished our morning with a early lunch in the food court and had a cookie while watching the ice skaters.

Gracie had softball practice and pictures in the afternoon {the wind was CRAZY, so it I am anxious to see how the pictures turned out} . 

After pictures we rushed over to church to try to catch the end of the movie night they were having for the kiddos.  We made it just in time for the second feature.  The girls got to have popcorn, hotdogs and juice while they watched the show.  They REALLY enjoyed it and are looking forward to the next movie night.

We missed having Daddy with us for the weekend, but we had a great time!