You can't contain this

Ben caught my cold this weekend and has been feeling pretty crummy most of the day.
He turned a corner after a good 3 hour nap this afternoon and was pretty silly this evening.
We had fun playing and put him down a little later than usual.
30 minutes of quiet later, I hear "Mama!"totally out of the blue.
Given his new-found monkey skills, I went straight into the room and found him perched precariously on top of his crib railing.
He wanted help down the outside. When I didn't offer it to him, he fell back into his crib and tried again.
I stood there watching, trying to gauge just how close he is to cracking his head open.
He can perch himself up on the railing in one good heave. He's too nervous to throw himself over the edge, at this point. At least for now, he seems content to clamp his little thighs of steel around the top of the crib and sit there with the proudest grin you've ever seen.
We experimented with lowering the side of the crib and decided that would likely only give him the courage it would take to learn how to dismount.
So we told him it was time to go to bed and tucked him in again and left him.
Another quiet 30:00 passes and I hear "Uh-oh"
Usually that just means he lost track of his pacifier, but this time it meant evidence that he really does take after his mother.



It's almost like he needed freedom from the crib and when he was unsuccessful, he decided to find it in his nudity!