This week was the ceremonial baby shower. This also gave me the opportunity to reflect back on some past moments during the pregnancy. I remembered a huge part of the early pregnancy partially based on this photo from the shower. I remembered the monkey. The delivery of the monkey calling/sighting is just as important as the actually event. A "Monkey" is when your Wifefriend awakes between the hours of 2-4 am and starts eating bananas. These monkeys were particularly abundant early on and have now been making a comeback during this final trimester. The only way to properly corral a monkey is to identify it by muttering monkey (munnnnnnnnnngkeeeeeeeeee). If you can't see a monkey it is easy to identify by sound. It sounds kind of like a T-Rex walking through a tar pit. You know when you have identified a monkey properly by a slight giggle and bed re-entry.
You may be thinking that these monkeys are comical, but let me assure you during the monkey's early stages of development they will experiment with many types of foods. The worst food in a monkey's diet for the mate is salted crackers. These young monkeys will tear through about 6 or 7 packs between midnight and 5 am and it sounds like someone is stealing your Christmas tree. One morning I woke up expecting to find an entire box eaten. However not a trace remained. These highly evolved monkeys instinctively cover their tracts and verbally deny any and all recollections of these events.
