"you're really taking that ape class seriously"

I think i am going to post two things today, this one right now because its easy, but check back soon because we also had an easter feast yesterday with tons of delicious food.

But i couldn't go without acknowledging one of the coolest things i got for my birthday last week: chimp cupcakes! Allie and Ankit made them for me! very cute, they are decorated with chocolate frosting, vanilla wafers and colored icing. Probably a lot easier than the monkey cake that Alex and i made for here birthday, which you can read about on Rachel's blog here. Actually, you can track the history of apes/monkeys in my and my family's crafting history in Rachel's blog. For instance there was the sock monkey "costume" i made with a pattern from knitty. Then of course there are sock monkey zombies... basically we have a long standing interest (obsession?) with primates in general in my family (i'm even taking a class this semester called "the ape within") .

After mentioning that i also got a book about Nim Chimpsky a boy i know said "oh, you're really taking that ape class seriously"

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i think this post has shown that that might be a bit of an understatement...