Off-the-Chart Cuteness...

Howler monkey babies Venecia (L), and Marisol (R).

     It doesn't get any cuter than these two little monitos (mono = monkey, and ito = little in Spanish).  
    Venecia, who is older, refuses goat milk or soy formula and feeds herself fruit and lettuce.  She sleeps through the night in a cage in the bedroom.
    Marisol drinks soy formula and refuses solid food.  She cries in a cage, so we wear her day and night...I sleep in a fleece vest so she can snuggle inside it.  At 2:00 A.M.  she wakes me with her purring (it sounds like a tiny machine gun) and first sucks - then nibbles - on my neck until I get up and feed her.
    Babies  are required to be off-the-chart cute when they're so high maintenance...

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Feeding Marisol with a 1 cc syringe.

    Paul and I both changed our attire following Marisol's recent arrival.
     Besides going to bed in a fleece vest now, I wear hospital scrubs (purchased for my vet tech externship) during the day... neither  attire being particularly sexy.  But at 442 grams (exactly 1 pound), Marisol produces a surprising amount of pee and - as darling as she herself is - her poo does stink.
     Paul has started wearing one of my old purses so he still has his hands free when holding Marisol.

Paul carrying Marisol in a cloth purse.

      If there isn't enough cuteness in these photos, the beginning of the second video (Part Two) is laugh-out-loud funny (but you have to watch closely) when Venecia leaps to the empty chair beside me.  The problem is that although the chairs look like wood, they're slippery plastic.  She accidentally does a pommel horse vault...and two little black feet shoot up in the air.