Monday, September 10, 2007

Lauren likes monkeys

And chimpanzees, and gorillas. Especially this one.


It's kind of hard to tell from the picture, but it's from a book called Touch and Feel Baby Animals. It's part of a box set of Touch and Feel books I bought for her awhile ago. The pictures on each page have portions that are texturized to feel like the animal. So, a lion has a big furry mane, and this gorilla is fuzzy, too. She likes this baby gorilla so much gives it big, sloppy, open-mouthed baby kisses whenver she sees it. Same with the chimpanzee in Beaky's Jungle. And the stuffed gorilla the Thornburgs got her for Christmas. And the little stuffed monkey that she's not allowed to play with anymore because it's so crusty. You get the idea.

Here's what I think is cool. She somehow understands that all of these different types of animals are in the "monkey" family. They all look very different, but she loves them all the same. She's turning more and more into a little person instead of a big blob of goo every day! Here she is reading a different book. Sorry, no cute pictures of monkey kissing. You know how that goes...

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