Monkey Junkie

This is Monkey:

Monkey is easily, hands down, Sam's BFF.

He is the cheese to his macaroni (if he could have cheese). Monkey and Sam is like peas and carrots (if he ate any of those).

I feel the need to document this phase in Sam's life and the extent to which he loves Monkey. If I don't, I will regret it, I'm sure.

In the morning, often the first thing  Sam says to me is, "Watch Monkey?"

Because I'm a pushover, I normally turn it on for him while he eats breakfast. No biggie.

As soon as the episode ends, Sam says, "Mo monkey?!" and looks expectantly at me and/or the remotes.

If I tell him no more Monkey, he will then protest by not telling his father goodbye or giving him a hug. True story.

We get to Susan's house where often his first question is, "Watch Monkey?" or he just goes to the tv, turns it on, then asks to watch monkey.

She is pretty good about monitoring the Monkey watchage in her house, so they normally get maybe an episode in the morning and maybe one in the afternoon. This morning after Monkey went off at her house, he protested by crawling in her lap and not telling me bye.

When he had strep a few weeks ago, he wanted to watch a lot of Monkey... to the point that his Daddy was extremely tired of hearing the theme song. I felt bad for him so I said we'd go watch it in our bedroom.

Big. Mistake.

Now, if we tell him, "No more Monkey." He asks, "We watcha Monkey ina here." And points to my bedroom.

Something else we hear a lot of: "No Sam night night. Sam watcha monkey ina here!"

One time, we told him no, and he went and got the remotes (there are two involved) and turned it on himself! (I will admit that it had just been turned off so all he had to do was turn on the tv then hit play with the other remote... but still... he's TWO!)

And I realize I"m talking about Curious George like it is two-year old crack... but that's what it is at my house! The kid is addicted. And I have a hard time taking it away completely because... Curious George is just good wholesome fun! He cute, he's learning, he's very nice and has great manners.

I mean, it could be worse. do do do do do Dora is a work on the nerves. Yo Gabba Gabba and The Wiggles completely freak me out. I'm okay with him not watching a lot of Disney movies or Nickelodeon cartoons.... at least Curious George is tolerable and wholesome.

But we are about to have to stage an intervention.

Text message received from Susan today:
"Your little fart son went upstairs to Jonah (her middle son) and got Jonah to turn on "monkey" in his room. We might need monkey intervention."

He is a manipulative little squirt who is bending the world to fit his monkey fix. He's a monkey junkie.

And he is the cutest, funniest, smartest little monkey junkie out there. Bless it.