Weekend in Schaumburg

This past weekend, I know I'm a little late, but me, Tom, my mom and Cooper packed up the car and headed to Schaumburg, IL for a shopping trip to IKEA. I've been eying a new bookshelf/dresser for Cooper's room and I did not want to order it online not knowing what it really looked like so I thought hey we have nothing going on so let's go. Mom was excited to go as well!

We left Dubuque around 8:00am it was just starting to snow, nothing real bad but just enough to be annoying (we are so sick of the snow here in the midwest, so I could use other words, however I'll keep it clean) we got to Schaumburg about 10:45 and our first stop was IKEA!

Look who's in a rush to get into the store!

Cooper did pretty good once Daddy found him a car to drive. This boy does not like to be sitting, he wants to "pushhh"

After we found everything we needed we headed down to get the big items and Cooper is helping Grandma (aka Bacca now).

By this time, it's after 1:00 and we are ALL starving. We were hoping to get a snack at IKEA but there food court was a sit down meal, nothing to really take along and snack on, so we headed to the nearest and closest restaurant we could find - TGIFriday's.

Next stop was The Container Store and Home Goods

By this point, it was after 4 and we were shot! Mommy's feet hurt and Cooper wanted to run, so we go to the hotel, checked-in and relaxed.

Then it was time for swimming. I really wanted to go but mom thought it wouldn't be a good idea plus I don't think it would have been pretty, so I stayed dressed and mom and watched.

The water was cold, but they had a blast. I think if I would have gone in, I may have gone into labor...

 

That night we ordered pizza for dinner and hung out in our rooms. We were all pretty exhausted and called it an early night.

The next morning, we hit the restaurant in the hotel for breakfast, loaded up and hit the mall. We found these cars for Cooper and since he now loves to buckle anything, we told him "let's buckle your seat belt" and it worked, he didn't get out, he tried but couldn't so it was a good shopping day. We didn't stay too long just hit a few stores and were on our way back to Dubuque.

"Shoes" I was buying him a new pair of shoes and was going to try them on, but thought no, I'm not getting him out of the car, so we just went with it, a new pair of stride rites.

And here is what I was after at IKEA. The only thing I didn't get was a shelf to match, go figure they didn't have the "oak effect" color. So I'll have to look for something here in DBQ or online. But we love it in his room and can't wait to fill it up and get a few other things on the wall.