To celebrate Michael's first day of Kindergarten I got him a Pillow Pet. And he loves this thing so much he carries it with him from room to room in the house, lies on it, sleeps with it, and genuinely has decided it might be the best thing in the world.
My sister and mother also got him a Pillow Pet (spoiled much?), so now we have three. Three Pillow Pets. (And no, this post was not sponsored by Pillow Pet. We all paid for our Pillow Pets with our hard earned money.)
(All together now, it's a pillow, it's a pet, it's a pillow, pillow, pet. Sorry, that will be stuck in your head the rest of the day.)
My house now looks like this-
And then last week, we had this conversation:
"Mommy, I want to buy you a present, I want to buy you the pink, sparkly unicorn Pillow Pet. Because I know how much you want it." (I do kind of want the pink sparkly unicorn Pillow Pet. Who wouldn't want that?)
"Thank you Michael, that's very nice. I have an idea. What if this year we exchange Hanukkah presents, you could go shopping with Daddy and get me a present and I could take you to buy Daddy a present?"
"That sounds good. But I'm going to get you the pink sparkly unicorn Pillow Pet."
"Okay Michael."
"Mommy?"
"Yes?"
"If I get you the pink sparkly unicorn Pillow Pet can I sleep with it?"
So much for altruistic motives. Or me getting my own Pillow Pet.
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Pillow Pet, sounds better than the Pet Rock I had at Michael’s age.
What IS it about these things? I was initially making fun, then the commercial was stuck in my head, then I kinda wanted one, and I KNEW my daughter would go batshit crazy for one. And my mother in law saw the commercial, and immediately bought them for my daughter, my nephew, and every other child under 10 she knows. The ladybug appeared at our house this weekend, so I’m concluding from your post that this is the first sign of the Pillow Pet infestation. Or the apocalypse.
Heehee! A “gift” you can share.
I wouldn’t mind having a pillow pet. They look comfy.
Great post…yes, noticed the pillow pet craze commin’ on….you’re lucky you’ve got yours solidly secured so that when gift giving season rolls around and crazed parents are battling it out for pillow pets you can sneak one away from your child and sell it on ebay for $500! ha!