Giant

[Tiger the Lion]

Paul,

A possible solution.

I still see him in the kitchen with mother,
she supervises as he stirs soup in a pot.

Is this what you mean, aside from soup? It could also be a generic: "as he is stirring something in a pot."

Unless you want to say "mixing bowl" for "pot" as bowl just congers a cereal bowl, at least for me, but I would think that would be a common reaction. Of course people would figure it out, using bowl, but it would be disruptive to the reading.

Dale

Oh yeah, your other two solutions work fine. Giant reduces the confusion that giants engenders and "bouncing" much better than bobbling. Good work.

Thanks for taking another look Dale. Those are some useful options.