One Little Monkey...

The strangest thing has been happening, and I haven't been able to figure it out. Until today, Aaron solved the mystery! Ok, so it goes like this...a couple of weeks ago I went in to get Lincoln up from his nap. On his dresser there are three pictures, one of him and Zac, one of he and Aaron and I, and one of him, me, my mom, my grandma, and my great grandma (it's a five generation picture). Anyways, on this particular day, the pictures were knocked over. But we'd recently had the humidifier in his room, so I didn't think much of it, and just put the picture up right again. But over the course of a few weeks, I started to notice that every time I went in to get Lincoln, either from nap, or in the mornings, his pictures were knocked over. At first I thought maybe Aaron had bumped them, but it kept happening, so I knew that was out. The dresser is too tall for Linc to reach the top of it while standing on the floor, so I knew that was out. I thought maybe Linc was throwing his stuffed animals out of the crib and hitting the pictures, but the animals were always still in the crib, and his arms aren't long enough to swing the animals out and hit the picture while he's still holding on to them. There is a square laundry basket width between the crib and the dresser, I know because that's where the laundry basket sits. :) I thought maybe he was reaching down and grabbing clothes out of the laundry basket and swinging them at the dresser and knocking the pictures over...but there was never any laundry on the ground, and it's kind of hard for me to believe an almost two year old would think to put the laundry neatly back in the basket afterwards. So ya, it was really driving me nuts, because I could not figure out how Lincoln was knocking the pictures down. So today, Aaron went to get Linc up after his nap. He came out and asked me if I'd put the pictures on the dresser down, I told him no, and explained to him what I just explained above. Aaron was like, I bet I know how he does it, he climbs across the mattress. We have a twin mattress that I inherited, and we have no where to set it up, but we don't want to get rid of it because it's a nice mattress and Linc will need one sooner or later, so for now we've been storing it propped up on its side behind Lincoln's crib. Well, I didn't believe Linc could get up that high, let alone not lose his balance and fall...but I was wrong as you will soon see from this video. Aaron grabbed the camera and Lincoln and set Linc in his crib and took this:

The funny part is that he never attempted (well, maybe he attempted, I don't know, but he never succeeded) to get out of bed, he always got right back in his crib, because I always found him in his crib when he woke up. Needless to say, the mattress has been moved to behind Ivan's crib. Hopefully it'll be awhile before he turns monkey on me. :)