The Pirate Duck is Missing

I cannot find Rudyard's Pirate Duck. I'm sure he's hidden it and he knows where it is at, but I don't know where it is at. When it comes time that Rudyard has a bath or we get out a big bowl of water for him to go snorkeling in, what will we put in the water?

Yes, ice cubes are amusing because they melt. But that is the limit of their fun.

And all of our ping pong balls have disappeared! Bowie fell in love with the ping pong balls when we moved in, and now he has played with them out of existence! I don't know where they are.

And in the end, the pirate duck is still missing. Oh Pirate Duck! What woe.

So, yesterday I went to the Dollar Tree. I love the Dollar Tree. Everything there is ONE DOLLAR. It's not like those other dollar stores, like Dollar GENERAL where everything is GENERALLY in dollar format.

So yesterday I went to the Dollar Tree.
I was on a quest, to get Rudyard some new toys. I had gotten the Pirate Duck from Walmart, which was next door, but I wanted some variety in case we found the Pirate Duck again (which we will, I am sure).

I got Rudyard:

• a bathtime Momma whale (dark blue/purple) and two bathtime bebe whales (yellow and orange).
• A new blankie! It is gray with a cleaning robot on the corner that reminds me of Rosie from the Jetsons.
• and last, but not least, a blue stuffed bunny with long arms and legs. The hands have Velcro on them, so you can attach the bunny to things like the  top of the cage.

I tried to surprise Rudyard with it all but sneakily opening his cage and sneakily placing his new things inside. But he promptly woke up and asked me what I was doing.

When he saw the whales, he squeed.

I had placed them in his miniature water bowl on the bottom floor of his cage. The small water bowl is  for mini-snorkeling.

This video is old, from last year, and shows when we still had ping-pong balls. This is his large snorkeling bowl and for out-of-cage activity. This is what he does with things that are in the water:




Well, imagine little bathtime whales. He squeed so much; he placed the Momma out of the water first, decided she was too big to carry around, and immediately after dove in for the bebe whales. He put the yellow one outside of his small snorkeling bowl, then picked up the orange one and brought it upstairs to his bedchambers.

Yay! Happy times.

Later, when Sam and I got out the big snorkeling bowl (the one in the above video) we placed all bathtime whales in it.

Rudyard picked them up one at a time, and one at a time, carried each whale out of the kitchen, down the hallway, into my room, and plopped them in the closet. The family of whales stayed there overnight.

Success!