Weird things you come home to.....

Jen Here...... Yesterday as I came home from work I heard some odd giggling coming from the apartment. As I approached the top of the stairs I braced myself for any and all possibilities.

Farting contest.....

Socks on heads.....

Monkey swaddles.....

Guillermo's house of pickles (if you don't know what those pickles are, don't ask.... ok poops)

But this....

A balancing contest. Which monkey could balance a tongue depressor the longest.

Bernardo has some mad balance skills so he was the sure front runner!
Guillermo can be whiley at times and pull some odd skills out. His only downfall is that he gets a terrible case of the giggles. The tiniest mention of the words fart, toots, monkey, well anything he gets a bit of the Jerry Lewis gahay laughs.
Bernardo took full advantage of that fact and kept cracking jokes, so he was the ultimate winner. The grand prize was a branch from the Japanese Cherry Blossom tree in the front yard. Bernardo was a good smelling monkey last night!
However, since Guillermo is the gassier monkey I was really rooting for him to be the winner!

Jen out.

PLEEPLEUS!!!!!

OMG, a real celebrity came over to our Two Knit Monkey site! He is the well known host of Three Sheets co-hosted by Zane Lamprey. What an honor it is to have him in our neck of the woods!

We had to have a welcoming shot taken before the festivities begin. We are going to show him the drinking traditions in the Gray household.
First off we introduced him to what is known as 'domestic beer'. Normally a better caliber of brew is in the house but when Pleepleus shows up you gotta give him the goods on hand!

After a few of the 'domestics' we introduced him to the tradition of socks on the heads. While playing a functional role of keeping our heads warm they look totally awesome. Please don't let him know he was wearing a baby sock. He oddly got VERY defensive by this so we convinced him Jen (our creator) shrunk the sock in the dryer....... (sorry Jen)
Then we lost Pleepleus for a while in the liquor cabinet. He came back smelling like tequilla but he was in a fantastic mood. To finish off the evening he helped Brian finish off his Juicy adult beverage.
We all had a great night. Pleepleus is currently sleeping it off in the executive suites. I wonder if he will ever get up again!

Jen's in the kitchen

When Jen came home from going out to lunch with grand-crator (aka, Jen's mom) she went straight to the kitchen. How strange she was in there after just going out to eat! She quickly came out and gave us all of these stickers to play with. AWESOME!!!!!

Then she let us out on the sunporch to play. What is going on with her today? But who are we to complain. Guillermo decided to hang around upside down for a while.
I was chilling out and tending to the new plants. I like to talk to the plants and encourage them to grow. Hopefully all of the plants will be strong and healthy. I ....... wait a second..........
We have been out here playing for quite a while.......

Jen is nowhere is sight......

I wonder what she is up to, lets go check it out!

OMG MANGO/PASSION FRUIT SANGRIA!!!!!!!!!!

Monkey Approved!!!!! Just don't tell her we tried it out.....

For making up the recipe it was delish! I hope she makes it again!

Oh My.......God of War III

Today a mysterious package arrived on our doorstep. At first we thought it was the Twilight graphic novel we order but to our surprise it was the latest God of War game!!!!! Holy monkey butts Guillermo, we got a kick *ss game in the mail!

Here's to an evening filled with Kratos, cyclops', gods, minions, harpies, and tons of fun!!!!

Crap, its rated M for mature. I guess we will have to watch Jen and Brian play........

Important Birthdays week and A Special Visiter

This week is full of very important birthdays. Jen's brother turned 40 and her niece turned 6. We wish them both very happy birthdays!

On Tuesday March 2nd it also happened to be Read Across America Day & Dr. Seuss' birthday. We were very surprised when one of our favorite Seuss characters stopped by. It was none other than The Lorax!!!!!

He was great to spend time with. He told us how he speaks for the trees and animals that have no voice of their own. When he told us about the Truffula trees being turned into thneeds, Guillermo initially wanted one! Once he explained what happened to the trees because of the thneeds he quickly changed his mind!

He taught us about the brown barbalutes and how they played in their brown barbalute suits!

The Lorax taught us all about greed, capitalism, and how important it is to preserve out environment. We had a lot to say about that since when we lived in the jungle as young-ins we relied on the trees for many things.

Before he left he made us honorary tree ambassadors and we took an oath to protect the trees and our environment. He also gave us two special seeds! We think they may grow into truffula trees!

Random Sashes we found!

On these cold winter days there isn't much to do in the apartment. We can't go out on the sun porch and play because we don't want to turn into frozen fellas! So, what better thing to do than dig through the closet and find some things to play with.

You would be amazed at all of the fun stuff we found in Jen's craft closet! Tons of yarn, needles, hooks, beads, fabric, etc. However we no better than to play with that stuff so we dug into the halloween stuff and found this!!!! Isn't it awesome!!!!!

Caution: Ferocious Minkees

Caution: Natural Gas Leak

Caution: We know Karate

Caution: Don't Rile the Monkeys

Caution: High Levels of Cuteness Detected

You get the idea!

Then we came across this little number. We are assuming that it belongs to Jen since on Brian it would be just weird! We can't imagine our creator as a Party Princess, but stranger things have happened!

We are going to scrounge around the house a little more and see what else we can find to play with. Who knows what we will find!

The internet is for P*RN

Hey all! We are back from our hiatus, aka cleaning up our site and getting rid of some seriously nasty comments!

We were strolling through our site one day and noticed that we had quite a few comments in what appeared to be Japanese. Well, being curious little minkee fellows we decided to click on one of the websites. After the initial shock of seeing NAKED HUMANS and a lot of gagging we decided we needed to be proactive and get rid of all of the inappropriateness on this blog. The only naked things we support here is naked minkees!!!!!

We are pretty sure that we got it all deleted (there was A LOT of stuff to get rid of!). So sorry for comment moderation and word verification but we don't want any more shenanigans on our site!

We have some fun and adventures lined up for the near future so keep an eye out. Take care! Peace! Monkey!

Book Club

Greetings all. For one of our new years resolutions we decided we needed to become more scholarly and read more. So we are starting a book club.We decided to start the year off with the riveting story about Sir Fartsalot and his hunt for the booger. It is 200+ pages of fun filled adventures!
Being best minkee buds we like to read together. Sometimes we take turns reading paragraphs aloud together, sometimes we read on our own.
It is nice to sit and quietly reflect on the text. We are up to chapter 3 so far today. There are knights, a king and queen, a prince, a dragon and so many more characters. Sir Fartsalot is Guillermo's favorite character. Can you see the gassy fumes coming off of him!?!?! Go figure!
We can't wait to get to the climax of the story and see what this scene depicts. It looks self explanatory, but we bet it is more complex than it seems.
Happy reading! Hope you join in the book club spirit and read more in the new year like your favorite minkee buddies!

Getting Ready for New Years Eve!

Most of you may not know this but New Years Eve is a monkeys favorite holiday. It takes several days to accurately prepare for the evening festivities. This year we are taking it to the extreme monkey style!

Preparation 1: Don a wide variety of socks. This is like a spa treatment to a monkey! We are getting relaxed and ready for Thursday night.

Preparation 2: Find some funny ears. These were just lying around in Jen's work bag. I hear they used to be 'stress balls' for her students. I just cut into them and put them on my ears. I don't know what she is thinking, I feel stress free!

Preparation 4: (yes this is out of order on purpose) Mosey up in the comfy chair wearing a pair of unders to keep us warm.
Preparation 3: Put our own unders on and get ready to party like a rock star.

If things go well, we may be wearing those unders on our heads. Let the festivities begin!!!!

Decorating the tree!

Well, Guillermo and I spent Sunday trying to decorate the tree Brian put up this week.

Afterall, how does that holiday classic go?

"Oh Christmas tree,

Oh Christmas tree,

ummmm...won't...you be...my neighbor??"

That doesn't sound quite right. Anyhow, we thought we could best help by unloading the boxes filled with decorations, so we put on our festive holiday socks and dug in!

Blech, kinda dusty in there...maybe we'll just work on untangling the lights!

Oh man, these things suck!

BRIAN!!! Help a minkee out, please...

Well, at least G-mo made the best of it!

Hey, look what I founds...little B & G-sized gift bags! Or as we call them: "toys"

Umm....Guillermo?

We finally got to the globes, giving them a good ole monkey-shine. Took a little longer than usual, you know how G-mo is: he kept calling them "magic shiny-balls" and was quite enamored with them...the red ones in particular.

Despite his quirks, I have to give credit where credit it due: this was an AWESOME idea, Guillermo!

Oh well, in the end, I guess Jen and Brian decorated all of the tree, but I am pretty sure we had more fun!

OH, and of course, we put the BEST decorations on last...

PS..and if you look closely, you can see our enormous "pine doodles" : ()

Deathstorm 2009

Today we are experiencing Deathstorm 2009. So far there has been rain, sleet, a bit of hail and snow. We even have a blizzard watch until tomorrow evening.

So, what is a minkee to do?!? We obviously can't play outside and it seems that with this weather all we want to do is snuggle!

We are breaking out the raspberry cocoa and getting refamiliar with our favorite show Lost. This is going to be some night! Get ready for thunder snow and minkee hoots!