February is birthday month at the monkey house.
Baby Monkey was born on 2/11/06.
Monkey in the Middle was born on 2/15/04.
Monkey girl was born on 2/23/01.
Before you ask, (because you will…everyone does), no, this was not planned.
Long story there, but let’s just say that we were incredibly grateful each time to have had a child, after long periods of waiting. Planning a birth month never entered the picture.
Having a birthday month has it’s pros and cons.
Pro: You get all of the birthdays out of the way in a little more than a week, and then you are home free for the rest of the year.
Con: Three birthdays in a little more than a week means three parties, three cakes, three times as many gifts on your credit card. (Although, we do try to do birthdays in cash. This year, that’s a definite.)
I’m sure you can imagine many more pros and cons.
I choose to embrace birthday month and make February the most fun month ever. We all get equally excited for everyone’s birthday, as they approach, and it’s just a good time to be a monkey. (Or a monkey Mama, as the case may be.)
Anyway, gearing up for birthday month always makes me nostalgic, so be prepared for pictures of the monkeys in their younger years. Unfortunately, our computer crashed a few years ago, and we hadn’t gotten around to backing up the photos we had stored there, so we’ve lost forever the photos of Monkey in the Middle when he was first born until he was almost a year old, and the pictures of Monkey Girl from about 2 and 1/2 to four years old. However, we still have many, many to share.
Like this:
My 100%, all time favorite picture of Money in the Middle, which I am only now realizing must have resized itself when I posted it to Facebook, and I cannot find the original. Shoot.
Anyway, the look of pure exhiliration, joy, nervousness, and childhood on his face in this photo is priceless and sums up the purpose of amusement park rides for me in a way that words never could.
So, brace yourself for some walks down memory lane in the coming weeks.
I promise to still regale you with tales from regular, real life around here, but you’ll have to bear with me on the other, as my babies are growing up.
