Pooping Cats, Plastic Horses and Baby Alive Types of Toys

As I'm just about to start writing this my daughter asks "Whatcha doing mom?" I said, "Typing and writing." Her response? "Again? Seriously?" So yes I'm back at it. Again, thanks for sticking with me.

So yesterday a friend of mine posted this Instagram story about a toy her step-daughter got that was feeding a baby doll something and then it poops. I laughed as she seemed horrified. Why did I laugh? Last year one of my daughter's best friends had this cat toy that you walked around and it pooped out plastic cat turds and farted and meowed and these girls thought this was the best thing ever.

Of course my daughter asked for her own and aptly named it "Pooping cat." On her video of her Christmas 2017 recap one of her prized possessions was in fact, "a pooping cat." She still plays with it to this day.

I remember wanting weird toys when I was young and vying for the "must haves" every year. And now I'm living in that world and sometimes it is surreal. I still don't understand the point of a Shopkin, what they are, what they do or why they are fun but I don't judge because I came from the Polly Pocket, Little's Pet Shop and Pogs era. Yeah, POGS!

I hope I'm not the only mom who just doesn't completely understand why some toys are cool versus the lame ones, but even if I am, somethings are meant just for the fun of little imaginations and that's fine with me.

So this past year for Christmas, Christmas 2018 that is, we got a Disney Catalog in the mail. Of course throughout the pages are toys that range in price from $10 to $200. They were kind enough to provide some 20 stickers for children to mark their wants and needs for Christmas. I thought I was being so sly letting Luna only pick 4 items...and the first thing she picked was a "My size" plastic horse from Tangled with the price of $99.99. 

The cheap mother inside me screamed, "Hell no you're not getting a $100 piece of plastic!" But then the nice mom who wants her child to have some of the things she wants, no matter how silly they may seem, started to consider it. 

This thing became quite the discussion point for awhile and she was all about getting her Maximus horse. She told Santa about that one right out of the gate. So, since she had never asked for anything that expensive before, I thought...we can probably make this work. 

They didn't have it at the store and even in November online they weren't giving a very good delivery estimate for this horse. So when my mom and I caught a pre-Thanksgiving sale at the Disney store I asked about old Maximus. A Disney associate said, "Oh yeah my daughter saw it at Target, it's cheaper there. She wants one too. We'll probably have it black Friday but you'll want to get here before 10AM to make sure you can get it."

Ugggh, black Friday. Once I tried to get a TV on Black Friday for my husband, I just ended up driving right past Best Buy like "Nope," when I saw that line. I would pay full price to not have to deal with the hysteria.

I found out that the discount would be worth it though so I started psyching myself up for what would be my first Black Friday endeavor...ever. So Black Friday morning I wake up super early, get a workout in and then head to the Mall. After hitting JCPenney first I found my way to the Disney Store and was first in line! I was going to get that horse! And for cheaper!

I get in there...nowhere. Nowhere to be found. I ask 3 employees and somehow they never had the "My Size Maximus Horse" in the store. Then I heard an employee say, "You should try Target." I almost lost it.

A friend of mine who was familiar with my quest found that a Target about 25 minutes away had it in stock for just $70 and I could order it online and pick it up, no stress. Moms to the rescue! Other moms are such wonderful friends! They make the world a better place.

So, $70 in plastic isn't as impressive but it definitely would not be easy to wrap. Amazon large Santa bag to the rescue. The things we do for love. 

Some of you may read this and think "I can't believe you bought that," but she was so excited. Maximus, whom she has decided is a girl, not a boy, despite our review of the film where they call him a "him" and "boy" repeatedly, now stays right by her bed and comes out to watch TV with her often. She brushes and fixes his hair and feeds him apples and makes him neigh repeatedly.

And while Pooping cats are hilariously gross and ridiculous, while pooping baby toys are strange and seemingly unnecessary and $70 is a lot to spend on a fake toddler-sized horse, some of these things are just a part of kids being kids and I feel blessed I can give her the silly things, even just for now, because that Christmas happiness, is definitely priceless, as is their reactions to pooping cats and babies. Back to your weekends readers! Until tomorrow...