Monkey Business

It may be the exhorbant amounts of junk food people keep bringing us or the joy of having Will home pulsing through our veins but Jamie and I are just loving to write about all things Will-ish.

You may remember from our previous post that William has a wonderful friend named Milton. Milton is a monkey who stays by his side almost all day and definitely all night. He sleeps next to Will and keeps him comforted. The best part about Milton is that he only has the head of a monkey; his body is a blanky. Thus hugs come a'plenty.

It was during Will's second trip to the hospital that Milton finally came out of his wrapping. Milton slept on or beside Will each and every night. Milton had it pretty easy as his companion was completely paralyzed and couldn't squirm away. Well one night William decided to even the score and prove to Milton that he did yet have one last secret weapon. As tends to be the case with Will genius strikes at 3:00 AM! Out of nowhere diapers were erupting with the pent up pressure of four days. As any good friend would do Milton courageously gave of himself to protect the nurse on night duty. Covered across his body with the contents of Will's diaper Milton got a quick dunk in the cleaner and then was shipped away from Will in his biohazard suit. Jamie and I could not help but giggle at the sight of Will's little buddy stuffed in a biohazard bag of all things with his little monkey head peeking out.

Milton needed a bath, and so we went home and gave him his own private bath to prepare him for a lifetime of servitude to his buddy William. We have extra Milton's on order knowing there is no way one will make it throughout Will's childhood. Thanks to grandma Bev for finding Milton!