More Monkey Business

We've been really bad with keeping up on the blog lately with everything going on, between finals, packing up and moving, and Keisha's blessing. Now that we are pretty much settled in we will try to catch up on recent events and keep everything else up to date and the posts more frequent.

The move went really well for the most part and we really like our new apartment (we'll get some pictures and put them up). Adahleigh and Charles are waiting for the pool to open up so that they can go swimming. They both really enjoyed swimming at the hotel with Kenya and Azure when they came to Pocatello for the blessing. Adahleigh asks every day if she can go swimming.

Charles has enjoyed the freedom that a bigger place allows and the lapse of supervision that has occurred while we've been unpacking or taking care of Keisha. He likes to play a combination of hide and seek and peek-a-boo, so he knows all the good places to go (he especially likes the front closet since there really isn't anything in it yet. He recently discovered all the stuff to get into under the bathroom sink. Luckily it was his bathroom so there isn't too many dangerous things in there to harm him, but he does like to eat soap.

He has also enjoyed full access to every room in the apartment since the doors don't have regular round handles, but have the ones with an arm on the side so he can open any door with ease. To keep both the kids in the apartment we had to get one of those safety latches that go toward the top of the door so they can't get out.

He is still honing his climbing. Which looks like he has pretty much mastered. We are constantly hearing him playing with stuff he shouldn't be in or even able to reach for that matter. This evening we heard him banging dishes together and found him on top of the kitchen counters.

It doesn't even phase him when he gets caught he just continues to go about his business until we pull him down.

We weren't quite sure how he got up because the boxes that were stacked weren't that close to the counter. He was nice enough to show us how he got up there as soon as we put him on the floor.

I took the orange tool box off after recording his climbing and he attempted to get back up by standing on the box left and them putting his foot on top of the cabinet door. He didn't have a good enough hand hold or he would've been back up. I didn't get a picture of this because by the time I got the camera back out he had given up the attempt. He has had a few mishaps in climbing, especially with out 3' chair that he likes to climb. He has had them fall on him a couple of times, worst to come from that is a bruise on his thigh though.