I have two monkeys. I got them with the express purpose of keeping busy. I run after them from dawn to dusk wiping monkey noses, putting away monkey toys, fixing monkey food and breaking up monkey fights. I do this in exchange for monkey hugs, which are priceless. So I figure I’m getting a pretty sweet deal.
Monkey See is five and loves kindergarten. He is introspective, a true thinker and observer. He says all kinds of cute things that reveal his inner soul-searching. He is as high strung as his mother, extremely cautious and calculating. He wants to be a pirate when he grows up and will cuddle on my lap for hours as long as I keep the storybooks coming.
Monkey Do is three, and now officially a preschooler. He is the personification of a ray of sunshine. As his name implies he can’t sit still for more than 30 seconds. Jumping, running, playing, riding bikes, chasing his brother around the house with a toilet bowl brush, diving into a bean bag from six stairs up, smearing Vaseline all over the walls and a variety of other life-threatening activities dominate his day.
Monkey See said something that simultaneously displays his observant nature and Monkey Do’s lack of impulse control — “If something hurts you, just stop doing it.”
Ten years from now Monkey Do will make sure they live life to the fullest and Monkey See will make sure they come home safely, more or less in one piece.
I love the last line of this – children are matched up in families the same way couples are sometimes. Opposites that compliment!
Your little monkeys are getting so big! I love your descriptions of each of them… very fitting! They truly do compliment each other, though, don’t they?