Pillow Pets

It's a Pillow, it's a Pet, IT'S A PILLOW PET!!!

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Pillow-Kitty

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Big "Sucker" boy is actually more an "under-cover" dog,
 but this morning he decided that joining the Ls on top of the blanket was better than hiding below.

Oh ... so comfy!!!

The CZ girls and their Pillow-Pets!!!!

Yesterday was Patrick's turn to cook.

He made a fantastic drive to the Milpitas Mall and served up a huge plate of "Fresh Choice" with ice cream for desert. We LOVE Fresh Choice!!! 

Another one for the "You know you are old / parents when you ..." book. 

6 years ago I would have told you that my favorite restaurant is "Shadow Brook" in Capitola. 

Great, great food, very romantic setting, dining on roasted duck and endivien salad, amazing wine, raspberry creme brulee and a nice port for desert. 

Today it's "Fresh Choice", an "all-you-can-eat" style eatery. So sad!!! 

But who can blame us? 

They serve everything the kids like. The Ls can get as much as they want and if they end up not liking it they can go and get something else. 

The desert bar is packed with all sorts of super sugary, bad treats and everybody else in this place is eating out with kids or is to poor to go to a real restaurant meaning they won't complain about my kids bad table manners and their loud stories of "Papa guess what we did today" .
It's the perfect place for us now.

Afterwards we walked through the mall so the Ls could run off some of the sugar they had in-taken by drinking lemonade and eating half of the desert isle empty.

So we wander by the shops when we saw the "As seen on TV" shop. Here you can find every infomercial item that you want (or not). And there they saw them ... PILLOW PETS!!! YEAHHHH

The Ls watch very little regular TV and I make sure they don't watch a kids channel that has commercials because of exactly this reason ... the kids want everything they see on the screen and believe everything they hear. Last year L asked for an Oxylcean Birthday Party since "Oxyclean is like magic Mama" - case and point. 

Anyhow, somehow they saw the commercial for Pillow Pets and ever since they have been asking for one. 

I had hoped they'd forget about them but NO WAY!!!! These things were imprinted into their brains and all they have been talking about is "Pillow Pets".

Sucked into commercialism yet again (and the price of 2 for $30) Pat broke down and bought the Ls the much asked for Pillow-Pets. Needles to say we had two VERY happy Ls today.

Thank you Papa for dinner and spoiling us!!!