When Wrigglebot was one and a half we gave him a cricket set. It was ambitious I know and at first he didn’t play with it and all thoughts of him being the next Bradman flew out the window, I mean surely Bradman was already hitting cover drives at one. Since then, however, the cricket bat has had a good work out and has been, in my opinion, the best present we ever gave Wrigglebot. Okay this is ignoring the times he chases the chook bat in hand but otherwise the cricket bat has been a big success largely due to its magical properties.

What magical properties? you ask. Well this bat can reincarnate. For a few months it was a guitar, then a cricket bat, then a surfboard and now a water ski. Wrigglebot will play with each of these things for hours. When it was a surfboard he set up the stumps as flags and found a toy to wax his board with and then he balanced on it until a big wave came and he wiped out. With the guitar he played loudly and softly and composed his own songs, they all seemed to have the same tune and volume and rhythm, everything pretty much the same except for the words.

I think that’s what I like about the magical cricket bat, he can make it be anything he wants it to be which would be a little more difficult with a Bob the Builder truck carrying helicopter for example, I mean what else can a helicopter be?

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