One Step Closer to Family and Friends with CloudPets!

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Do your kids have a hard time stay­ing in touch with long-dis­tance fam­i­ly mem­bers like my daugh­ter, Anabelle?! As you might have seen in our Are We There Yet post, we have been lucky enough to be able to trav­el quite a bit to vis­it with our loved ones, but the fact of the mat­ter is that we just aren’t able to do it as fre­quent­ly as we would like, which is why we were so excit­ed to find out about the adorable stuffed ani­mals called Cloud­Pets™!

Those of you have have fol­lowed the blog for awhile might already know that my fam­i­ly and I cur­rent­ly live in Las Vegas, NV, but have not lived here all our lives! I was orig­i­nal­ly born in São Paulo, Brazil and when we moved to Cal­i­for­nia, we unfor­tu­nate­ly left quite a bit of fam­i­ly behind. We then head­ed to Cal­i­for­nia, which is where I met my hus­band, Brad, years lat­er. With fam­i­ly and friends spread out, we’ve tried to vis­it as much as pos­si­ble, espe­cial­ly to allow our friends and fam­i­ly to bond with Anabelle, but the hard­est part is con­tin­u­ing that rela­tion­ship on an every­day basis. So, when I heard about Cloud­Pets™, I imme­di­ate­ly thought it could be a res­o­lu­tion to the problem!

The premise of the new, one-of-a-kind toy is to allow loved ones to stay in touch with the cre­ative use of mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy. When you down­load the Cloud­Pets™ app {to a vari­ety of com­pat­i­ble phones and tablets}, it con­nects to the stuffed ani­mal so that you, as well as friends and fam­i­ly who are invit­ed to con­nect, can record and send mes­sages! Seri­ous­ly, how cute is that?! As soon as I explained it to Anabelle, she was beyond excit­ed and could­n’t wait to pick one up!

We made sure our local Wal­mart car­ried them, then head­ed in to search for them. At first, we were dis­ap­point­ed because we could­n’t find it in the toy depart­ment, but were pleas­ant­ly sur­prised {frankly, I was relieved since Anabelle was had her heart set on get­ting one!} when we found them in the As Seen on TV aisle! Phew! Now came the tough part…

How to choose?!?! We spent waaaaaay too much time in that aisle try­ing to decide which Cloud­Pet to pur­chase! Lol! Between the kit­ty, bear and pup­py, each of their faces were just irre­sistible! It does­n’t help that I have a weak­ness for stuffed ani­mals and have appar­ent­ly passed this trait down to my daugh­ter. Please keep an eye out for us on an episode of Hoard­ers: Stuffed Ani­mal Edi­tion in the future. 😉

As you can see, the final deci­sion came down to the pre­cious black and white kit­ty, whom she named Meow Meow! We also picked up some dou­ble AA bat­ter­ies {the toy requires three} so that we could set it up as soon as we got home. It was super easy to con­nect it via the app on my phone and send out invites to our loved ones to join in on the fun!

The app is incred­i­bly easy to nav­i­gate and also includes a game and lul­la­bies, allow­ing for extra cud­dles! The mes­sages are sent through the app run­ning on a near­by device and Anabelle was then able to lis­ten to them her­self through Meow Meow, as well as record and send reply mes­sages her­self. Not only am I excit­ed that she con­nect with far­away fam­i­ly and friends, but I’m thrilled that when I am away on busi­ness trips, I can send her lit­tle mes­sages! Frankly, it’s hard on BOTH of us when I am away from home, so I think it will pro­vide us with some much need­ed solace to hear each oth­er’s voic­es as we count down the days until my return. Plus, any wor­ries I had with the tech­nol­o­gy were eased when I read that there are parental con­trols because… well, the vir­tu­al world can be a bit scary these days!

Anabelle is soooooo excit­ed to exchange mes­sages with her grand­par­ents in San­ta Cruz and her close friends in Los Ange­les and her aunts, uncles and cousins in… well, through­out the coun­try and world! Check out this super quick video to hear a mes­sage sent on Meow Meow!

 

With whom would you or your kids con­nect using Cloud­Pets™? So many pos­si­bil­i­ties… kids away at camp, in the hos­pi­tal or with par­ents in the mil­i­tary! Or how cute would they be to ask some­one to prom with or as an anniver­sary gift?! Any oth­er cre­ative ideas?

 

Merci Beaucoup!

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