The old toy came with other stuff in the package has been totally destroyed by Mimi last night. It didn’t worry me at all as I don’t like the old one anyway. It’s made of plastic and cheap artificial feather and looks really lousy.

However, Mimi does like to chase it up in the house. It’s also a good way to help me and my husband to keep fit without running on a treadmill or riding a stationary bicycle. We usually spend at least half an hour to play with him everyday. It’s a pleasant thing to tease him with a swinging thing at the other end of rope and make him jump up and down, eyes rolling from left to right. He runs like a mad horse and in order to grab his quarry, he acts like a serious soldier in World War II, which made me laugh.

Since the old toy became a crap, I decided to fill up the toy gap ASAP. I dug up a pair of old pajama pants, and drew a shape of fish at the wrong side of cotton fabric, then sew the edges by hands (I haven’t got any sewing machine yet). After having done the most of seams, I left a small opening to fill up the stuffing. Before doing that, turn the inside out and cut the old worn cotton fabric to 1-2 cm wide of strips, and inserted them into the opening until the whole fish was filled up to a plump shape. Sew the last seam to seal the stuffing and finish off the whole shape, aha!!! The most important step was done!

Then I did some creative job. I used a blue and red mark pens to draw the details on the cotton fish. As the fabric of my PJ has a design of blue dots, I made best use of the two dots as the eyes of fish. I also drew a mouth, tail, scales and the a divider between the body and the fish’s head.

It only took me about 15 minutes for all the sewing and drawing. 15 minutes later, it’s all done!!! I tried out the new toy with Mimi. At the beginning he was really scared as I guess I made this toy so vivid and the red colour was really stimulating and shocked him a hell lot. His first response was running away immediately, but curiosity is cat’s nature. He couldn’t help exploring, by walking slowly around the hanging fish for at least 2 minutes, touching the thing with his little paw cautiously from time to time. Soon he found that the new toy did no harm to him and not terrifying at all. He started to make his pouncing like a brave soldier jumping on his enemy. While me, held the rod on the other side of the fish as if holding a whip like a strict coach (actually I was laughing secretly) in the military academy , creating different levels of task difficulty to train my little student.

Sometimes I wonder if Mimi can tell this is just a game or something serious. I really want to know what’s going through his little head