Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Monkey's Paw

When I was quite young (though not as young as Dominic!) I scared myself very badly by reading a short story called 'The Monkey's Paw.' As you can see, Dominic is now ready to avenge that long-ago insult to his mother's sensibilities by teaching that monkey who really controls the paw:


Shortly before I returned to work on January 15th, I discovered Still Hip, a local consignment store (or in old-fashioned parlance, a second-hand shop), where I found this excellent Gymini playmat for Dominic. He seems to like it quite a bit (and I'm definitely not sorry that the little sound card was missing!)



Although he hasn't forgotten how much he enjoyed his original friends, the lion, the zebra and the giraffe on his swing. We believe he may be contemplating some problem in elliptical orbits here:


When I went back to work, David became the daycare and Grandma Betty came to help out for a while. That was when we discovered that Dominic preferred to hold his own bottle, thank you very much!