“The rabbit has a folded ear,” said 6-year-old Channelle Munoz before she posed with the bunny at Parkway Plaza’s first Breakfast with the Bunny event held at O’s American Kitchen on April 1. Channelle knows how to get a bunny ship-shape for a spring portrait.
Channelle’s mom, Noemi Munoz, from Spring Valley, said, “I have the ‘coming events’ that text me from Parkway Plaza and they sent me this notice.”
“The rabbit has a folded ear,” said 6-year-old Channelle Munoz before she posed with the bunny at Parkway Plaza’s first Breakfast with the Bunny event held at O’s American Kitchen on April 1. Channelle knows how to get a bunny ship-shape for a spring portrait.
Channelle’s mom, Noemi Munoz, from Spring Valley, said, “I have the ‘coming events’ that text me from Parkway Plaza and they sent me this notice.”
Noemi Munoz brought her other daughters Alexis, 4, and Charlotte, 2, all clad in their Easter dresses. Channelle is hoping for Shopkins and toys from the TV show “Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir” in her Easter basket.
Ken Gray, Parkway Plaza’s marketing director, was quick to highlight the underlying reason for the breakfast as a benefit with proceeds going to Scarlet’s Kids Foundation founded by Lakeside resident Barbara Wibe. Parkway Plaza picked up the actual costs of the breakfast.
Wibe started the foundation after her now 3-year-old daughter, Scarlet, was hospitalized at Rady Children’s Hospital at three weeks old with an illness, a bowel obstruction, that turned out to be NEC or necrotizing enterocolitis. This is a serious medical condition in which the tissues of the intestine become inflamed and die.
Scarlet’s Kids Foundation mission statement is giving gifts, grants and support to hospitalized and chronically ill children and supporting other parents going through medical crisis with their children.
Besides pictures with the bunny, who according to Ken Gray, will be available in front of Sears for portraits until April 15, the actual breakfast consisted of a breakfast pizza, bacon, sausage, hash brown, milk, muffins, and juice. O’s American Kitchen employee, Lani Lucas, described the breakfast pizza as having Munster and mozzarella cheese, eggs, and ham.
Rabbit tails, Easter dresses, and clip-on rabbit ears were part of the dress code for the event with the Easter bunny serving as the human resources department if not adhered to but no violations were reported. Swag bags were handed out or clear cellophane bags with cookies and fake, pastel colored grass and ended up as place settings next to the kids’ breakfast plates courtesy of Scarlet’s Kids Foundation.
