Bathtub Ball

So the boys did make Bathtub Ball a tradition: three times in one day, no less. And then they lost their ball, and 10 minutes of crawling around on my hands and knees weren't enough for me to find it.

So on my way home today I stopped by Target and bought a package of ping-pong balls and a package of spongy rubber balls.

The ping-pong ball was a qualified success: they loved it so much that they kept batting it out of the tub. Since this wasn't supposed to be a game of "teach-Tesla-to-fetch," I replaced it with the rubber ball. So far this is also amusing, makes a different and altogether appealing sound, and has not yet been tossed out of the tub. But I'm not thrilled about this ball: it's smaller, and the texture makes me think that they might want to chew on it, which doesn't strike me as a great idea. I'll replace it with the ping-pong ball before I go to bed.

The package of rubber balls says "Made in China," which is surprising because they're very light; I thought that lead was supposed to be heavy.