Impossible to pick a favorite from any given batch of frodos. I can't even narrow it down to 3 favorites, ever. (Caek though, is definitely up there, and potato girl)
Friends of mine taught their very little kids to 'act like potatoes' once in a while, sort of meditation/humor, and the kids were way into it. The parents said, "Ok, now would be a good time to act like potatoes," and the two little kids would drop and curl up in a ball, close their eyes and stay really still for several minutes. And we could test them, ask them questions like, "Are you under the ground growing into a nice fat potato?" or "Wouldn't you rather be eating cookies right now?" or toss goofy jokes at them, try to make them laugh, and they'd ignore everything. You could see their little faces trying to be as blank as possible but sometimes squinching up in concentration on truly *being* potatoes. It didn't matter if everyone around was totally giggling at them, they could maintain perfect potato stoicism for as long as they felt like it, it was impressive
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Friends of mine taught their very little kids to 'act like potatoes' once in a while, sort of meditation/humor, and the kids were way into it. The parents said, "Ok, now would be a good time to act like potatoes," and the two little kids would drop and curl up in a ball, close their eyes and stay really still for several minutes. And we could test them, ask them questions like, "Are you under the ground growing into a nice fat potato?" or "Wouldn't you rather be eating cookies right now?" or toss goofy jokes at them, try to make them laugh, and they'd ignore everything. You could see their little faces trying to be as blank as possible but sometimes squinching up in concentration on truly *being* potatoes. It didn't matter if everyone around was totally giggling at them, they could maintain perfect potato stoicism for as long as they felt like it, it was impressive
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