Curse you, Madison Avenue

I am grateful that the shows the boys enjoy watching are on PBS.  No freaking commercials.  When they do watch a show on the networks, I'm starting to hear, "Mommy, we need to go get that!"  Ugh!  But, sadly, it isn't just the commercials anymore that influence Drake's brain.  Here are a few examples:

D: Mommy, we need to go buy M&Ms at Albertson's.
Whaaaa...?  I get the candy part, but Albertson's?  What the heck?  We were watching the NASCAR race, and sure enough, on the #18 M&Ms car was a teeny tiny sticker for Albertson's.  Wow, is he ever paying attention.

The boys were watching Curious George.  Popcorn is featured prominently in one episode.  I turned the TV off after the show for dinner time and I hear, "Mommy, we need to get some popcorn."  He threw quite a fit when I told him we can't have popcorn for dinner.  (When I was in college, sure, popcorn for dinner was fair game.)

Yesterday's CG episode was "Juicy George."  The monkey gets a hold of a juicer.  Chaos ensues.  The resulting juice is quite tasty.  I turned the TV off.
D:  Mommy, we need to juice something.
Me:  We don't have a juicer, honey.
D: Oh, OK, let's go buy a juicer RIGHT NOW.
Me: No, Drake, we are not going to buy a juicer.
D:  WAAAAAHHHHH!
Me:  We do have a blender.
D: *pause in hissy fit*  What do blenders do?
Me: They blend things.  Should we go to the store tomorrow and buy some fruit to make juice in the blender?
D:  Oh!  Let's go RIGHT NOW.
Me:  It's dinner time.  We'll go to the store tomorrow.
D:  WAAAAAAHHHHHH!
We did go to the store today to buy juice-making ingredients.  Drake picked them out.  Here is the recipe:
               1 mango
               2 black plums
               1 lemon
               1 1/2 cup 7-up
               Remove skin from fruit and chop into little bits.  Put little bits in blender with liquid.  Blend.
The result didn't completely suck.  Drake wasn't a huge fan of our recipe.  He decided we are going to try again on Sunday afternoon.  (I think we went horribly wrong with the lemon.)  More importantly, we had a really good time with the process, even if the result was less than tasty.