Happy Friday. Molasses the Sloth Has the Right Idea.

It's Friday. The week is done. Molasses the Sloth has been ahead of this moment the whole time.

Molasses is a TY Beanie Baby Original — 21cm of soft, relaxed sloth with a tag poem that lands differently on a Friday. It reads: I may be slow as you can see, but I don't let it bother me. It never keeps my friends away, moving slow is just my way.

His birthday is 7 August. He costs $11.99 AUD.

The name is doing a lot of work here. Molasses — the slowest thing in most kitchens, the standard unit for measuring unhurried progress — is exactly right for a sloth. TY named this one well. At 21cm he's a solid size, bigger than many Beanie Babies, with enough presence to hold his own on a shelf or a couch without disappearing into the cushions.

Molasses is a Beanie Baby rather than a Beanie Boo, so the design is classic plush rather than the oversized-eyes Boos format. That gives him a slightly different character — softer, more settled, less wide-eyed. He suits the name. He suits the poem. He suits Friday.

At $11.99 he's the kind of thing you pick up for someone who's had a long week and needs something soft and low-pressure to hold. Or for a child who already loves sloths. Or for yourself, because sometimes a 21cm plush that has committed to moving at its own pace is exactly what a desk needs.

Beanie Boos Australia is a small Australian family business, part of the newsXpress group, and an official TY retailer sourcing from the authorised Australian distributor. Genuine products, packed with care, shipped across the country. Free standard shipping on orders $150 and over.

Molasses is available now at beanieboosaustralia.com.

Have a good weekend.