Family uses their time stuck inside to build daughters a mini Target and Starbucks
(KERO/CNN/Meredith) — Need to go on a Target run? Or how about grabbing a latte? In an effort to stay home, one California family decided to bring their two favorite places indoors.
Toddler Mila and baby Madilyn would usually stroll the aisles of Target with their mom Cindy Iribe, but now that’s changed.
“We haven’t been able to take her out. Usually [Target] was our place to go, and she liked to walk around and look at toys and stuff,” Iribe said. “And she already knows at Starbucks, she gets her cake pop.”
Dad Diego Gonzalez said with social distancing, the family can’t play at the park either.
“We decided to build her something indoors, and a small little project turned into a little theme project,” Gonzalez said.
In just two weeks, the family built their own mini versions of Target and Starbucks. The Target store was customized from a play set and the Starbucks was custom built from scratch.
Name tags and aprons were given to the family from a local store. The parents have stocked the play areas with real food to make them as realistic as possible.
“For me, at the end of the day watching them play and enjoy it and us knowing that we put it together as a family means everything to me,” Gonzalez said. “We don’t have to see it as a negative aspect that we have to be indoors all day.”
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