I took Graham to the toy store today to meet Curious George. Graham was very excited to go, but when we got there he reacted the same way as he did when he saw "Sharky" at Underwater World: he panicked. But while Sharky never did grow on Graham (the huge teeth, maybe?) we decided to just hang out on our small plot of carpet near George's feet, while about a hundred small bodies wormed around next to us, some screaming with pleasure and some just plain screaming. It was a real scene. Eventually I couldn't take it anymore, so we went off into another part of the store and decorated a monkey mask. We tried to sit down for a storytime, but there was too much commotion going on. And Graham finally said, "Hi Monkey?" so I took it as a sign that he was ready to Meet George, which you have already seen. He did learn a new word today: Lap. "Hi Monkey lap, hi monkey lap." It was a big hit afterall. And the boy will be getting a Curious George Treasury for Easter, but don't tell him that.
Other new efforts include calling Daddy "Nick," and just today he is saying my name "Nessa" and he is "Gam." I am seeing every day how important the people we know are to him. He has a little song that he sings, where he runs down a list of friends we've seen lately, and it's so pure-hearted and exhuberant it's just heartbreaking.
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