also known as zwoo
In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order, but the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown.
Julia has been having very vivid and disturbing night terrors, usually only once a week or so but last night over and over again. She thrashes and kicks and cries “No no no no no,” and though her eyes are half-open she can’t really see and isn’t really awake and can’t be consoled. It’s horrible. And loud. And by the time she’d had her fifth night terror early this morning – and then gone on to do a huge poo and wake up quite happily and settle down on the sofa for a Dora marathon – her father and I were as ringwraiths, mere hollowed-out shadows of our former vibrant selves.
Which seems as good a time as any to mention how utterly I love her. She’s well into her two-year-old explosion in theory of mind, and has developed a massive crush on her Spanish teacher Susy. She is also greatly attached to her bear Bess and likes to gesture with her to make a point. She likes it when I get pedicures:
“Want see prilly toes!”
She calls Bebe “Killy” and showers her with affection. That vicious little cat’s eyes go wide:
“How DARE you…” And then she half-closes her eyes and starts to purr.
Jules gives the best hugs, solar plexus to solar plexus, her entire body glommed onto you like a starfish. If you won’t get down to her eye level to receive one of these in the approved fashion, she’ll improvise by glomming onto your legs.
She is a point source of happiness.
This morning I asked her: “Are you my Julia?”
“No,” she said. “I MY Julia.”
The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!
(What does it say about my misspent youth that I can accurately date that clip based on Pigsy’s prosthetics?)
