Mom and her piano student are watching cartoons. Dad keeps laughing at his patients. And Kate and Simon don't DARE have friends over. How can they live normal kid lives when they always have to act like their parents' parents?

Poor Kate and Simon not only get the blame for the trouble their parents make, they also get grounded, and their sleepover party is cancelled. Then they hit on a way to show Mom and Dad who is really behind all the mess. It's a foolproof plan -- that is, until Simon's friend Jake gets involved...

While Simon and Dad watch the football game, Kate and Mom are off to the pet shop. Mission: Fresh straw for Sammy the hamster. What Kate really wants, though, is a puppy. Only, there's no way Mom and Dad would ever allow it, at least not as grownups...