1st trip to the Mall

Many of you may not know this but my husband is a drummer. A really good drummer. He has a HUGE set of drums in the basement & likes to have his friend Don over for jam sessions. Don is a singer & plays guitar so they record music & have a good time being "rockstars"! This afternoon they were meeting up for a jam session - or to play "rockband" as I like to refer to it as so Mase & I decided to get out of the house & kill a few hours while they jammed.

There were a couple of things I wanted to check out at our local mall so that is where we headed. This was Mason's first trip to an indoor mall & after today it definitely won't be his last. We had SO much fun while there.

We first stopped at the food court & had his favorite for lunch - "I-nese" (Chinese)

Then we walked around checking out all the "kid" stores. We went to the Lego store, Build-A-Bear store, spent tons of time in the Disney store where Mase tried on all the costumes & we even walked through the American Doll store.

We rode on the carousel not once but twice & then stopped to play in the play area where I had met the nicest lady who had a son with Down Syndrome who just so happened to be playing with Mason. For whatever reason I felt the need to tell her that I had a niece with DS. 

 

We ended up talking to each other for almost 45 minutes. She shared with me that she had 2 older children - one in college & one was a senior in high school & Max was a "surprise" at 41 years of age but one of the best surprises they ever could have hoped for. She shared pictures of Max & her family with me while I showed her pics of my niece Dana & her family talked about how we had just returned from the DS Walk a couple of weeks ago. She was so nice & such a pleasure to talk with & it was fun watching her son interacting with Mason.

 

After Mase was played out we stopped at one more store & then made our way back home. It took Mason all of 5 minutes before he was sound asleep in the backseat. Looks like his 1st mall trip wore him out!