retrodude Thanks for the nice comments, I used separate objects and pinned them to the monkey. I like streamlining things, my monkeys are actually one Sprite object, with 4 different animations, this simplifies so much of the switching in between, and the pinning pins to the position say no.2 which would be the hat point.
— That's because the game is meant for iOS, and it is meant to be retro-styled, so I limited the game's resolution to about 1/4 of the actual iOS resolution :)