BFF

Photos: December 31, 2007
Journaling: February 1, 2008

Jonas loves Monkey (who is actually a gorilla.) Monkey was a gift from Grandma Bonnie and Grandpa Frank Christmas 2005, when Jonas was 17 months old. It was a really cool gift, but Jonas didn't realize until about a year later. Once he figured out that Monkey was super-cool, they became fast friends.

About a year or more into the friendship, Jonas was just learning the concept of being friends and that you could have a best friend. He knew that best friend had to applied to Monkey. Especially since Monkey never complains about being trampled, pummeled, drug through the house by one arm, dropped from great heights, slobbered on, sat on, thrown under the bed or ignored in a corner for days at a time. It's friendship at its best.

The journaling on the page is all manner of questions and exclamations from Jonas about Monkey or to Monkey. I wish I could get some video of Jonas and Monkey having a whisper- conversation (with Jonas speaking for both of them.) It's alway funny stuff to hear what a 3-year-old and his best friend have to talk about.