Go Jee Finally Makes The Header!

I like to change the color themes on the blog every few months to keep things fresh. I usually tweak the header graphic a bit at the same time - subtle font changes - nudge the graphics around. Last year I put a Santa hat on Mouse for December. For some time now I’ve been thinking about how to add Go Jee to the header. One of the things that was holding me up was trying to figure out a set of Chinese characters for his name. I need to talk with a native Chinese speaker about this because my limited abilities of searching online dictionaries for characters that would work haven’t turned up anything.
When Shen first started calling his big monkey “Go Jee” we assumed it meant something in Chinese, then we thought it was a twisting of George, as in Curious George, which is a favorite TV show and set of books in our house. If it was, it no longer is as Shen says “Curious George” pretty clearly and never calls him Go Jee.
Go Jee was actually a gift to Kai from some friends at work when he first came home. Kai liked the big monkey but soon latched onto a little gray mouse. Ironically, that mouse wasn’t meant for him originally, but he liked it so much we let him keep it. In turn, his big beautiful monkey was adopted by his younger brother.
Go Jee really was a beautiful monkey too. He was HUGE and had fantastic shiny fur. He was well stuffed and fat, but Shen works this monkey like a worry stone and has worn him down to a limp husk of his former self. Which is how you can always spot a really great stuffed animal.
So it may be a bit late, but GoJee is finally on the blog header with Stinky Mouse. :)