Zoe and Blue Monkey

Zoe seems to change everyday. Not only is she fatter, longer, and more active, but she has started to "discover." A week ago she discovered her hands and fingers which she now sucks on as she goes to sleep, a slurping background noise I listen to as she lies in her crib.


Her big discovery though has been Blue Monkey. I started putting her down in her activity gym, a small mat with toys dangling from 2 arches suspended just above her head. A blue monkey toy, with disturbing googly eyes, a curly tail, and strange accordion-like legs has become her confidant. She stares at him, waving her little arms, wriggling, smiling, and chattering in Zoe language - a mixture of birdlike coos and sharp little yelps. He mesmerizes her to the exclusion of all others.

Zoe and Blue Monkey


Zoe regarding Giraffe with suspicion-he's no Blue Monkey


I suspect that she sees a little blue monkey in Kenji, thus explaining her fascination with him as well.