After my hospital stay, we brought home the balloons and they slowly lost height over time. I had a funny idea of making it into a race to the bottom, which people seemed to enjoy. So here is the photo set over time (June 18, 2023 through August 21, 2023).

Hopefully Máni will be able to make it back into the living room, now, since the balloons scared him. The same with the ceiling fan, which is why we never turn it off now, so perhaps that talks to some trauma he had as a very young kitten (son of a feral mother).