Right about now, Justifiable Jealousy could be Alexis' band name. She could be jealous of the new baby because of how much of my time has been diverted to all things Mila. It would make sense to be jealous that activities are geared towards things that are newborn-friendly. Alexis could even be jealous because Mila gets to wear new clothes all of the time.
Nope.
Alexis is jealous of Mila's toys.
I have caught Alexis playing with baby toys just about daily for the past few weeks. It's hilarious, especially because 99.9% of the toys were Alexis' when she was tiny. To sum the situation up, Alexis is jealous that Mila gets to play with toys that Alexis long ago decided were no fun anymore.
Genius, eh?
That's the back story to how this happened.
Mila received a Bright Starts™ Hide 'n Spin Monkey™ in the mail for a review, but Alexis immediately grabbed the box and begged to put it together.
I was trapped under a sleeping Mila, so why not?
Ten minutes later, the Hide 'n Spin Monkey™ was ready for action. Mila was awake at that point, but it didn't matter because she couldn't have played with her fun new toy if she had wanted to. Someone else was busy hogging it.
"This is SO AWESOME!" Alexis proclaimed as she put the balls in the monkey's hat over and over and over again.
The Big Kid played with it for a solid hour. She pushed every button, tested every light, checked out all the different ways to make the balls shoot all over the place, and generally had a blast. You guys, she was laughing the entire time.
To make it even better, one of the cats took an interest in the brightly-colored balls and started fighting Alexis for them as they shot out of the monkey's barrel. That led to a giggle-fest of monumental proportions.
Who says you have to outgrow fun?
I took Alexis' laugh-a-thon as an opportunity to test out the Bright Starts™ Baby Laugh Index™. Sure, it's meant for babies, but she's MY baby, so there. Her score was a 78.8% probability of becoming an Insta Ha! Laugher. "The fearless first to laugh laugher gets the rest of the laughs roaring." Yup, that's her all right.
But what did Mila think of the Hide 'n Spin Monkey™?
Yep, it's laugh-worthy.
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