All sorts of trouble

The wonders of modern day technology have cured the common babysitter's longest held gripe-- late nights in a house full of sleeping children while the rest of the social world is living up an otherwise terrific saturday night.

I may be babysitting, but thanks to my laptop and wireless internet, I am also tele-socializing.

I spent my afternoon and evening partaking in a completely new activity: dressing up and posing stuffed monkeys. Ok, I have to admit, the first "dress-up" event was entirely my idea and thus, the sequence of today's events can be blamed on me. But unlike an eager 11 year old and overly-excited 8 year old, I can tell when stuffed monkeys have had too much....

Maybe you can also tell:

This is Pirate Monkey

and Captain Monkey

And Safe Robber Monkey

This is what happens to all monkeys who drop out of school- they get a job behind the counter of a McDonald's.