Animated List Rearrangement (JQuery UI Sortable)

Question

I'm trying to build a sortable listed thats animated.

• Apples
• Bananas
• Cavemen

Let's say I've selected Apples and I want to switch it with Cavemen, I want to click on Apples, drag it to cavemen and have bannas and cave men animate up to the proper positions.

I am aware that JQuery UI Sortable allows for some level of this functionality, but I'm not sure if there is a way to specify something during a pause before the DOM changes or through some cloning.

$( ".selector" ).sortable({
    change: function(event, ui) { ... }
});

Would it be possible to manipulate sortable to provide this level of functionality, or would I be better off writing a plugin from scratch?