Tessie's latest favorite pastime is blowing bubbles. Fortunately, we found a spill-proof soap solution container that she can use on her own without creating a mess. Now, she asks for "bubbles" all day long, but she is well able to entertain herself quietly with them, and she's really cute doing it.
Tessie's day care held a fund raising event on Friday and modeled it after the Olympics. Tessie and her cohort (the "Pooh Bears") "competed" in a total of three events, and the whole thing took about twenty minutes, which is a significant improvement over the usual two weeks the real Olympics consumes. While there was no specific "cat herding" event, the staff certainly had Olympic potential; the children were as entropic as one might imagine.
The events seemed to me to be more in the spirit of training the little ones for the working world than for athletic competition. The first event, a crawl through a series of tunnels, teaches the kids that the seeing the light at the end of the tunnel only means they haven't entered the next tunnel yet, the obstacle course is set up to make them jump through arbitrary hoops without explaining why, and the scooter race just gets them ready for the madness of commuting.
Or maybe that's just my cynical interpretation. Judge for yourselves:
It is my hope that, fifty or more years from now, future readers of this site and its content (and yes, I do expect it will be archived by someone, somewhere) will find it just a little bit as charming and entertaining as Mr. Barstow's film. Enjoy!
(h/t Curbed LA)
