Thanksgiving Tree

I randomly saw these leaves in King Soopers of all places, and our Thanksgiving Tree idea was born.  Each night (or every second or third night we would play catch up) the kids would tell me something that they were thankful for.  Typically the kids were very sweet about it (though we did get some funny ones) and only towards the end of the month when we were doing multiple leaves at once did I have to tell them to think of something from their heart, and not something silly.  Even though my tree was a little ugly (check out the roots) it turned out so cute and the kids and I really enjoyed doing this.  I listed what the kids had me write on their leaves below the picture.  If you read them, you'll notice "great" is basically the only adjective Lizzy knows-it makes me wonder if I use that word all the time!  And although Paul gets points for the funniest one (Taco Bell) he also took this activity to heart and really thought about what he was thankful for.

Lizzy:

I have a great Mom, Dad, Grandma, dogs, Grandpa, Pops, and Mamaw.

That Daddy had a great day.

For our great house.

For Dad's birthday.

I have a healthy body and I'm smart.

Mom made my blanket.

We have this great family.

I'm thankful we went to school today.

That I have toys.

That we went to the Hanson Family Thanksgiving.

I have a funny Mom, Dad, and brother.

That Paul got to go to Dylan's house.

That I have a great brother I play with.

That we had this great day.

That we had great strawberry and pumpkin muffins.

We have great dogs.

For happy smiles.

That I have a great brother.

That we go to church on Sundays.

That we get to see Hannah.

I'm thankful we went to the hockey game.

That we have this Thanksgiving.

We have this great house.

That we got to see Will.

I have friends.

Paul:

I have a mom.

I'm thankful that we vote.

I'm thankful we had some good food.

That we went to church today.

That my sister is funny.

I have a grandma.

That we went to Aiden's baptism and party.

I'm thankful we went to school today.

That we had Thanksgiving dinner.

For Dad's birthday.

I have a grandpa.

That we do math.

I'm thankful for Taco Bell.

That I went to Dylan's house.

For our Earth.

I'm thankful Will came to the hockey game.

That we have this school.

That I have a good family.

For our thankful tree.

That I helped make muffins.

That I have a little sister.

We have Christmas.

That we have batteries.

We have a great family.

It's been busy...Update Part 2

Here are the updates in pictures, in no particular order!!

August 2012:  Little Man fell asleep in the car on the way home from Daddy's work party.  He was tired out because the party didn't even start until 9 p.m.  He managed to sleep the entire way home just like that, then I carried him to bed and he barely even noticed.

October 2012:  Jazzy just randomly had a swollen face.  We took her to the vet and she was given antibiotics and pain medication.  Before the meds kicked in, her face ended up looking like the Target dog's snout-all swollen and puffy and at least twice the normal size.  After that didn't work, we had to get more testing done and it was determined that she had an infection caused by grass seed and six weeks of antibiotics ensued.  Poor, klutzy Jazzy.  The weirdest things happen to this dog.  Love her.  

September 2012:  Cori replacing the gutters on the house.  Only to take the new ones down and hire someone to do it for us for less-we are finally working smarter-not harder!  (Thanks Austin for saving us on this one!)

September 2012:  Our pink, pink house.  In good lighting, it was pink with a hint of brown in the mauve trim.  In bad light (also known as daytime) it was Pepto-Bismal Pink with fuchsia trim.  And dead, dead flower bed.  Ugly.  Hideous.  Awful.

October 2012:  Our freshly painted, Devonshire Taupe with Parisian Taupe trim house.  We love it.  It is so much better!  What's not pictured is that the door is now a dark blue color and we completely replanted the flower bed, so it is looking so much more like we want it to look.  Oh, and let's note the garage door that Cori installed completely by himself with two small "helpers," all within about 5 hours while I was working.  Let's hope the plants survive this winter, and more specifically they survive my care of them (or lack thereof).  Also, we totally recommend our painter.  They gave us a bid on a Thursday, got the colors from us on Monday, showed up at 6:45 on Tuesday, and were done and gone by 12:30 that same day.  Also, they were over $2200 less than the other bid we got.  While the house looks simple from the front, the back is a walk out basement with a deck and a ton of intricate trim work, and it looks great.  We can't say enough good things about them!  (Ron at Father and Son Painting, let me know if you want their contact information-we loved them that much!)

October 6, 2012:  Little Man and Little Miss in our front yard after the morning session of General Conference.  Love this sweater on Little Man!  They were so cute that day and super excited to go see "Aunt Nellie and baby Reed" at my parents' house after Conference.  We got them up and took them to church to watch Conference because we want them to realize that is is not a day to just skip church and lounge around at home.  Unfortunately we were 15 minutes late because when we got to our church building (on time) we realized they weren't broadcasting it there, so we had to drive across town to a different building.  Still totally worth it.  I think we will continue to do this, and maybe add more sessions as the kids get older.

October 2012:  Little Miss lost her second tooth!

August 2012:  Little Man crawled into Little Miss' bed to sleep one night, and this is how I found them when I went to get them up.  I sometimes forget how little and young they really are!

August 2012:  I made Apple Boats for the kids one day and we had a picnic in the yard while we worked on a project together.  They were super simple and easy to make and the kids love them!

October 2012:  The kids got mustaches from somewhere, I have no idea where, and Little Man taped it to his face.  They thought it was so funny.

July 2012:  This picture was taken in July, and is one of my favorite pictures of Little Miss.  In color it is even more beautiful and just so Little Miss.  But I saw this thing on Pinterest about transferring a black and white photo to canvas and this was my attempt.  It's too rough and some of the print peeled off, but I'm going to keep trying to do it the right way-I really really want it to work because it will look so awesome!

October 2012:  Cori reading to the kids.  Aren't they all so cute?!

September 2012:  Cori putting together the toy Little Man picked out and bought with the money he got from cooperating with eye ointment after his surgery.  The first time we put it in his eyes was absolutely traumatic for all of us.  I literally had to sit across his body and pin his arms down while he kicked and kneed me in the back, and hold his head still with a death grip on his chin and face.  It was awful.  Little Man cried so hard he cried tears of blood, which the surgeon told us would happen but was still just terrible.  So, we told him that for every time he did his eye ointment with no problems, he could earn a dollar.  The second time was almost as rough, but by the third time he and Cori had it down.  We had to do this twice a day for 10 days, so he earned $20.  And it was worth every penny!

August 2012:  My mom wanted us to go get some family pictures, and here we are posing outside after we got them done.  First official family pics!

September 2012:  Little Miss and Little Man's first candy apple, supplied by Grandpa Randy.

August 2012:  First day of school pictures.  I got some good ones with our real camera, but this silly picture I took with my cell phone.  Little Miss was "too pretty" to be very silly, but they are still funny.

August 2012:  College Day at school!  Little Man was home from surgery, so Little Miss represented CSU for the family.  (That's a 6-12 month baby outfit, but it was all we had and it fit her perfectly.  Still does actually).

August 2012:  Little Miss "helping" Daddy lift a bookshelf/entertainment center so they could take it downstairs.  She actually got it a couple inches off the floor.  At one point as Cori put it together, he yelled for Little Man to come help him with something.  Little Man came running into the room and exclaimed, "I knew you would need me!!"

September 2012:  One of Little Miss' more "creative" outfits.

August 2012:  Little Man got new glasses.  They weren't the ones we originally picked, but when his prescription wouldn't fit in the first ones, the optical center just picked these for him without consulting us, and thankfully he likes them and we like them.

August 2012:  Little Miss got new glasses!  Cori and I saw some pictures of her as a younger child wearing glasses, but she has never had them since she came here and Little Man says she hid them (in a cornfield?) while she says she lost them.  Anyway, we were worried that she was supposed to be wearing them so we took her in.  We also noticed that one of her eyes tends to be lazy, and since Little Man has this issue and they are genetically correlated, we thought she should get checked out.  Sure enough, one eye was doing most of the work, so glasses it is!

August 2012:  Little Miss' reaction to finding out that Aunt Nellie is having a boy, not the girl that Little Miss had her heart set on.  However, soon after this she cheered up and actually picked out an outfit to give to him.

August 30, 2012:  Little Man had eye surgery to correct the horizontal and vertical crossing of both his eyes.  The surgeon and nurses all said that kids come in, get the procedure done, go home and take a nap, and then wake up back to normal.  Soooo not true for Little Man.  This was such a traumatic thing for him and it really took him about five days to get even some resemblance of normal back.  I was so irritated that this had never been handled when he was a young child or infant and he had to have this done at an age that he will vividly remember.  His eyes were super red and bloodshot (think horror movie) for almost two solid weeks.  I was so worried about how the kids at school would treat him and what they would say to him, so I tried to prep him before he went back.  He never said anything so I hoped it had just gone well and there weren't any problems.  A few weeks ago he told me that when his eyes had been red, he and the kids at school pretended he was a vampire and he got to chase them around, and it was cool.  Thank goodness vampires are in right now!  Now he's completely healed and back to normal, and his pretty little eyes are straight!  I am so happy he finally had this corrected!

August 2012:  Little Man drew a volcano and a monster.  The picture says, "The volcano is Little Man.  The monster is Mom.  The monster is looking at the volcano."  He thought it was absolutely hysterical to draw this picture, and he even gave me some long blue hair to go with it.  He belly-laughed for a good ten minutes over this one.  It's now in a place of honor at my work :)

July 2012:  The kids were missing Cori this summer while I was home and Cori was working, and I just explained that Daddy loves us all so much he works really hard to take care of us.  This was Little Man's processing of that information.

September 2012:  Little Man and Jade, both eagerly watching out the window for Daddy.

September 2012:  The Princess Carriage.  Cori dubbed this as such because Little Miss (and Little Man when given the chance) LOVE to ride in here.  Little Man would rather ride his bike, but Little Miss is perfectly content to ride in the trailer and do no work for the ride.  I was working so much that I would wake them up early and take them both with me on a ride before work just so I could spend time with them, and they loved it.  It was a good workout pulling 90+ pounds of children around the hills in our neighborhood, and we had a ton of fun just chatting and watching the sun come up.  We are sad it's too dark to go before work and school now!

No pictures for these, but Little Man has been in trouble once already at school for "pushing" when someone cut in line in front of him, and then again with us when he told us someone pushed him down and kicked him in the ribs and the teacher wouldn't listen to him.  I went to bat for him that time, but when the principal talked to Little Man about it, he "remembered" to tell her that he had accidentally tripped the other kid before it happened.  I was not so happy he "forgot" to tell me this the two times I talked to him and the one time that Cori talked to him about it.  Then, the next day Little Miss brought home a ticket for playing in the boys' bathroom because she "thought it would be funny."  Yep, so funny the principal got a copy of the ticket as well as her teacher and us...not so funny afterall.  It was a rough week!  We've been talking a lot about appropriate behavior in our house lately.  I think it's getting through more to the dogs than the kids, which is a scary thought considering their issues (food stealing, jumping the fence, destroying every sock and tissue in sight, destroying basically anything in sight actually, and the list goes on...).  However, it was a full moon recently and the weather changed drastically, so maybe that's it?  One can only hope...  

Little Miss continues to struggle with accidents, though things are much better.  I got some pull ups for her to wear because she was just sitting in her wet clothes after an accident instead of changing, and we didn't want her to get an infection, smell bad, etc.  That seems to have really helped-why we aren't sure, maybe it's embarrassment or maybe she is just more aware, but we are just glad it's helped.  Little Man continues to be SUPER bossy all the time.  He's our little sheepdog, always chasing us around and trying to herd us in one direction or another.  He's constantly arguing with Cori and I when we tell him something, even something minor.  It's so.freaking.irritating.  We've been working on it a lot and finally enlisted the kids' counselor for help.  Interestingly, when she asked him to draw a picture of our family, he drew us all, then labeled our ages as Little Miss age 6, Cori and I age 10, and himself as age 18.  It's all so clear now.  He really thinks he is the grownup (understandable with his history) and that is just how he thinks.  Still frustrating, but now at least we have a little insight.  Cori and I refer to him as 18, and when he's being particularly bad about it, we just shrug and say, "18."  It is making it a little more manageable.  Someone also told me it is just the age he is at, which I super hope it is, because that means it will go away at some point!!

It's been busy...Update Part 1

The last two months have been completely insane.  The kids are back in school and I have been working crazy, ridiculous hours.  Since the middle of September I have worked close to 225 hours-that's about 5.5 weeks worth and I've only paid for 4 of them-my employer is getting a ridiculously good deal!  Last Thursday I walked in my door at 10 p.m. and for at least three days a week, the only time I've seen my kids is while we are getting ready in the mornings, which is generally rushed and chaotic.  Oh, and I got my first cold in three years a week and a half ago and it is hanging on for dear life!  Add this all up, and it makes for a stressed out, unhappy Mama.  And a stressed out, crazy busy Daddy.  Thank heavens for Cori!  He has completely  held everything together by himself.  I have had to call him at the last second multiple times in the last few weeks to handle things with the kids that I was supposed to take care of, but just could not do.  He's fed them, bathed them, done homework with them, gone to appointments with them, and just generally made sure they are okay.  Also, he has completely taken care of getting our house re-painted, repaired some fascia that had been rotting since we bought this moneytrap house, tore down and put up new gutters, only to take them down and hire someone else to do it for less money (yay!) and completely replant the flower beds in front of the house-oh and completely replace our garage door by himself.  Someone needs to get that man a drink!

Even though the kids have been in school for nearly two months, it still seems like we have not yet fallen into any sort of routine.  The kids go to bed anywhere between 7:15 and 9:00 p.m., though it's usually between 8:00-8:15 p.m.  This is a problem because these kids need their sleep and they need their routines!  Both kids, but especially Little Miss, just fall apart if they are not regularly sleeping 11.5-12 hours a night.  They are not the type of kids to sleep in if they are up late the night before or take a nap to catch up-we either hit their window or it's a lost cause.

I told one of my co-workers that I have just lost my mojo.  I can't keep up at work, despite working ridiculous hours, and it seems like the multi-tasking that my job demands just completely escapes me.  I can't keep up at home, I haven't gotten to spend any time at all (much less quality time) with the kids during the week, and forget keeping the house up to even my modified standard!!  It's really crazy-making.  I have no idea how working moms keep things together, and clearly I missed the memo!!  So working moms, how do you do it?  Any tips or tricks?  I'm dying on the vine here and I would LOVE any direction I can get!

In the midst of all this, we have attempted to keep on living life!  The kids are growing and learning, they are absolutely hysterical at this age and we love it!  They definitely keep us on our toes and we are busy busy busy.  They have lived with us for nearly 10 months, and it is hard to believe so much time has flown by, and yet it seems they have always been here.  I sat down and watched tv for the first time in months the other day, and it felt so weird!  Cori had taken the kids to the park and I was sick, so I felt justified in doing nothing but sitting there and zoning out.  It was nice, but felt so strange and the house was way too quiet!

Not-So-Fertile Friday

I have FINALLY figured out how to work Pinterest.  As in the entire thing, not just what comes up from the pinners that are somehow connected to me.  And it rocks!  I came across a quote but I have no idea who to attribute it to.  However, I've been thinking about all day, and I'm still not sure why it's snagged my attention so thoroughly.  Maybe it's because I need to heed its advice, and maybe it's because I know how impossible that can be.  I'm not sure.  But it's definitely food for thought.  What do you think?

Don't let your struggle become your identity.

In my experience, and from talking to my not-so-fertile friends, it seems that a couple facing infertility goes through periods of time when not only does infertility completely define you, but completely consumes every waking thought.  From scheduling tests to making doctor's appointments, to tracking cycle days and  taking your temperature every. single. morning. when the alarm goes off, it's super easy to let it take over.  Ask any infertile lady friend what cycle day she is on, and I guarantee she can tell you with zero hesitation.  There are some days that I truly, honestly believe that I know more about the human reproductive system and conception than your average doctor (and if you've read the first post about our infertility experience, you can see why I think that.)  Want to know the latest information about miscarriage statistics?  Ask an infertile.  Want to know where the best research studies are happening?  Ask an infertile.  Where to get the cheapest Clomid?  Simple.  Target is three times cheaper than Walgreens.  The list goes on ad nauseum. Of course, there are some really great things about this.  For example, certain tests MUST be done on certain cycle days.  You have to be able to track this accurately.  Certain medications must be taken at exactly the same time every day for them to be most effective.  And at $300 a shot (literally) you better be able to make it happen.  When you are searching for a child to be placed with you for adoption, you never know when you might stumble across the opportunity you have been waiting for.  But it's hard to live in this state of constant hyper-awareness of the reality of your life.  Cori and I almost didn't go to a family reunion one year because I was scheduled to have a certain injection right in the middle of the vacation.  And this medication had to be refrigerated, so traveling 9 hours by car to the reunion seemed impossible.  However, we figured out a way to make it work and got our doctor's blessing, so we went.  But there are definitely times that I avoid situations that I know will be too much to handle.  And the reality is also that sometimes you can't avoid situations that are hard, and sometimes it takes you completely off guard.  I know I don't have the answer as to how balance things.  Anybody could tell you that I am terrible at it actually.  How do you define yourself as anything other than what you try to overcome?

Back to Work and Life Update

I've been back to work for two weeks now.  I'm slooowly getting back into the swing of things.  I had a huge amount of anxiety and just dreaded going back to work.  My job is super intense-long hours, emotionally exhausting, and you have to be on your A-game every day all the time.  I texted a few co-workers a couple of days before I went back to work to try to prepare myself for how it would be, and they said that things were slow and manageable.  But I swear, as soon as I walked in the door things got crazy.  Multiple people were on vacation and two people had deaths in their family and unexpectedly left for several days. 

As much as I appreciate a return to routine and to a schedule, it was really difficult leaving the kids.  Little Man has really struggled since I've been back to work, and that has been hard.  He's much more needy and just off.  He has really been struggling with having to be "first" and in charge of everything.  He will literally cut in front of Little Miss when we are just taking a walk, or they are walking through the house, or in any situation that he possibly can.  If Little Miss is doing something, Little Man has to be doing it also-and he has to make sure that we know he is doing it bigger, better, faster, or louder.  He won't share his toys with her and if they are playing, they have to use his storyline or he refuses to play.  He's like a little sheep dog just trying to herd all of us and make us go in the direction he wants us to-which isn't generally where we need to be going.  Super frustrating and annoying!  However, the flip side of this has been that we can really see how important it is that Little Man has really consistent, intensive, and engaged parenting.  I told Cori the other day that although I wish Little Man was having an easier transition time, it's gratifying to know all the work we have done with him is working!  And he can feel free to return to his sweet, easy going self any day now! 

He drew a picture a couple of nights ago and the conversation we had just cracked me up.  I asked him about his picture and he thought it was HILARIOUS that he decided the monster in the picture was me.  He added blue hair to the monster so it would have long hair like mine and then he took it further and wrote, "The monster is mom."  Then he wrote, "The volcano is Little Man."  He had already written, "The monster is looking at the volcano."  He was giggling so hard it was making Cori and I laugh too.

The other day the kids and I were helping Cori deliver a catering, and we were talking about floating (tubing) down the Poudre River next year.  Little Man kept asking us what the "Poudre" was and we kept trying to explain that it was a river and we thought it was just not clicking, because he kept asking what the name was.  He finally said, "It sounds like somebody pooed in it!"  He got a belly laugh going and just could not believe that was its real name.  It was so good to hear him just laughing and laughing like a carefree little boy should.  It is so fun to see his sense of humor shining through more and more often!

Little Miss is, generally speaking, what I call more "energy intensive" than Little Man (meaning, she requires about seven times more energy to handle).  She's a challenge, parenting-wise, so we are always trying to figure out how to meet her needs and what works with her-if you ask me on a bad day, I will vehemently declare that nothing works!  There are many, many days that I do not feel I am up to the challenge of figuring it out.  She's much more unpredictable than Little Man and much more strong-willed.  The face below is quite common around here--and quite cute, obviously I couldn't resist the picture!

This was because I added sugar then milk to her "brown cereal" (Chocolate Malt-o-Meal) instead of the other way around.  She insisted that I always add the milk first and I was doing it wrong.

Since they are so close in age and in the same grade, it's hard to remember she is younger and not as mature as Little Man.  And of course, they are very different kids just by nature so things will be different between them.  Anyway, we have seen less difference with Little Miss than with Little Man as I've gone back to work.  The exception to this is that she has been challenging Cori much more often.  Usually she won't test him, but lately that has gone out the window and she is purposely pushing his buttons.  Yesterday she kept lying to him and told him that she didn't think he should discipline her for lying.  As she buckled up in my car right after their conversation, she admitted she was just saying that to make him angry.  Well, mission accomplished.  I'd love to hear ideas about how other parents have handled issues with honesty/truth, etc.  It feels like we have tried everything, but I'm sure someone has a great idea we haven't tried.  I know it's also just the developmental stage she is at, but it's still frustrating!

I worked a lot with her this summer around our relationship and engagement and investment between us, and I think we have seen positive results.  She's been super funny lately (even when she's being so naughty!!) and at least once a day she has me laughing pretty hard.  Sometimes it's after I'm done being upset, but still...  A couple of days ago she and Little Man were arguing over a plane, and I told them that if they couldn't work it out, the plane would go to timeout.  Little Miss immediately told Little Man he could have it, then turned to me and winked!!  I have no idea what we will do with her when she is 15.  Last night we were running errands and we had to go into TJ Maxx.  Of course, she was wired and struggling to listen, and of course, they have super breakable stuff all over that she cannot resist picking up and handling.  I finally knelt down, held her hands in mine, and was talking to her about her behavior.  She looked up at me, and in a fake wobbly voice, said, "Please don't hurt me Mommy."  Let's just say our shopping trip ended abruptly.  We had a little talk about that later and she said, "But you hurt my feelings."  Umm hmm, right... 

Later as she was getting into bed, she looked at her bedside lamp and told me she was going to pray to Heavenly Father to fix the lamp (it needs a new light bulb which I've been avoiding because I feel like it's too bright for her to sleep with).  I told her that was a good idea and she needed to realize that even though He could fix the lamp, He might not, and that sometimes He uses other people to answer prayers.  She asked if I would listen to her prayer and so I did.  I was feeling pretty good about her understanding our little talk when she prayed that He would help me to remember to fix the lamp.  After her prayer was over, she said, "Mom, just in case that didn't work, I also prayed to the Spirit of the West!"  It was pretty funny.  And, as a co-worker pointed out today, referencing Rango, the Spirit of the West happens to be Clint Eastwood.  Um, concept lesson fail. 

Little Miss has been very into having her hair be curly, and I've figured out a way to make it curly but not crazy using sponge rollers.  Her pose below is typical for her when she wants her picture taken.  She must have watched some crazy amounts of America's Next Top Model before she came to us-that girl knows all the poses! Sassy little thing!

The dog apparently wanted to be in the picture too.

We finally got some family pictures taken recently.  My mom bought a package and we went and got them taken a couple of weeks ago.  We don't get back the official ones until later this week, but here is one that my mom snapped with my phone afterwards.  It's not great, but it's the best one we got :)

August 3, 2012

Little Miss' Room

When summer started we moved Little Miss' bed under her window, thinking it would be cooler for her.  I was worried about her curtains being too long and dragging on her bed, which in my mind, led to her stepping/rolling/laying on them, causing the entire curtain rod to come crashing down.  So I decided I was going to devise some way to rig up my version of a roman shade.  This is what I came up with.

Before:

 After:

I sewed purple and white 2" ribbon around the edges of her curtains (just to make it prettier).  Then I sewed two rows down the middle of the curtain, roughly dividing it into thirds.  I sewed one side of the ribbon, then about every 8" I sewed a 1" seam to create a little loop.  I left about 10" of ribbon hanging down at the bottom so I could thread it through the loops I had created.  Then I pulled on the ribbons to raise the curtains.  Lucky for me, you can't tell I sewed the ribbons on crookedly (oops!) and Little Miss can't work the system, so it stays in place.

Tie-Dyed Easter Eggs

This was our attempt at making tie-dyed Easter Eggs.  Our experience with this: super labor intensive, the kids lost interest fairly quickly and really didn't get to help much, and the results were marginal.  Cutting up all the ties took forever!  And then we thought, "Hey, why not wrap them in waxed dental floss to be sure the fabric is right against the eggs?"  I'll tell you why not.  It doesn't really work.  And wax gets sticky.  It turned out like things usually turn out for us:  plan and prep and do it thoroughly? Fail.  Wing it and see what happens?  Success.  But we gave it the good ol' college try.  Maybe next year...

What our eggs were supposed to look like:

What our eggs actually looked like:

You can see where the dental floss left impressions.

This one actually turned out really cool.  It was a golfing tie.

 

This one wasn't so hot.  The dental floss didn't  do it any favors.

Mr. Monkey

At the end of Kindergarten, Little Man got to have Mr. Monkey come stay for the weekend.  He was so excited!

Little Man and Mr. Monkey

Mr. Monkey helping Little Man make banana bread.

Mr. Monkey meeting all the other stuffed animals at bedtime.

Mr. Monkey in his backpack carrier going for a bike ride.

Mr. Monkey and Little Man

Mr. Monkey meets Jade

Mr. Monkey meets Mamaw