I’m obsessed with Build-A-Bear and I need help

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It started with the idea that my son needed cuddly toys. I mean, all kids love cuddly toys, right? Well, Jack wasn’t interested. He like cars and trucks and only once in a while will hug a soft toy and go, “Aww.”

So I thought, “He needs a really good teddy bear. That will make him like cuddy toys.” I had images of him holding one in the car, taking him to bed with him, and looking back fondly at that one teddy bear that he absolutely loved because his mother got him something really nice.

I saw little girls around Christmastime holding their dressed-up Build a Bear cuddlies and thought, “Surely I can find something that Jack likes.”

Wrong!

I took him into the store in the mall and yes, he looked at the bear, but quickly put them back. Not interested. I urged, I suggested. Nothing was that interesting. Not even the Red Raptor.

But he likes Isabelle from Animal Crossing, so I bought that.

Then for his birthday, I tried a few times before finally getting him into the store when it wasn’t too busy, and bought him the Pay Your Age birthday bear. That’s in his room with the tag still on because I couldn’t bring myself to remove the souvenir that says, “Jack…