Cows!

Natalie loves

Thanks to their clever advertising, she calls it "Cow Eat."

The current toy in the kids meal is a little cow figurine.

Prior to today, we'd collected 3 of them. She named them: Natalie, Lindsey, and Ba, and then asked where the Daddy cow was. So we returned to Cow Eat today in pursuit of a cow figurine to be come Dayee. Boy did this turn out to be our day. After using a coupon for a FREE kids meal I found in the dark corners of my wallet, we discovered there were there TWO cow figurines tucked into her kids meal. Feeling through the package to find they were in the same stance, I went to Bobby, the customer service guru and asked if I could check another package to find the cow in the touchdown position for a trade. This would give us a set of 4 cows, each in a different stance.

(are you still with me?)

Bobby got the manager and the manager got an entire new box of cows. He let me have at it until I found one in a different stance, a touchdown. I opened it to find

a gold cow!!!

Now, while we're not in India, this is still a very special cow, for it carries with it a coupon for a free ice cream. Fearing that Natalie would not accept this gold cow, the manager found another one in the same position, gave it to Natalie to open and she found... another gold cow! So we left today with a total of 4 cows, with the guru's and the manager's blessings upon us. Now we have a family of 7 cows and free ice cream in our future.

What will all their names be, I wonder?
=)