Josh's secret present came in on the 11th. We waited until the kids were asleep and then pulled it out. Josh had a rug like this when he was little and has wanted to get one for Bowden for a while.
Bator, the black cat, liked the rug immediately.

He looks good, no? The kids woke up and LOVED it. There are many different games you can play with a bear rug, especially if you can pretend it's a horse. This one, from Cabellas, has some especially nice details, and Josh had told the kids a long story the night before about how he and his hound dog Jupiter Silo had hunted a bear back in the day, so they were primed for the rug. It has become a morning ritual for them to curl up on it just after waking up.