The last time we met I mentioned Mason's bizarre decision to flip out of his crib. Learning from this mistake, the twins decided to improve the process. About a week ago I headed upstairs to get Jaxon and Mason out of bed and found that Jaxon was already heading down the stairs. I helped him get situated on the couch and then went up to get Mason only to find that he, too, was already out of bed and headed down the stairs. I thought Emilie might have gotten them out of bed but found that she was still asleep. They finally figured out how to crawl out of their cribs - something Chase never did. The twins are now at the age where we took Chase's crib out of his room completely. We're trying to work out the logistics of this problem.

Mason has only climbed out a couple times. Jaxon, on the other hand, is constantly climbing out of his crib and into Mason's. It is disrupting naps and causing issues. This issue, however, pales in comparison to another issue we're having with Jaxon.

I mentioned in a previous post that Jaxon tends to be a daredevil. Specifically, he likes to climb the stairs on the ledge on the outside of the rail. Of course, as usually happens, this thrill soon wasn't enough and he had to start looking for bigger thrills to get his adrenaline high. So he started climbing up the next section of stairs. I've caught Jaxon on the outside of the rail probably half a dozen times. I'm providing a picture with an arrow pointing to where I usually find him.

I have tried desperately to think of an effective way to keep him from doing this, but I haven't come up with anything yet. I have a couple ideas that may work, but I would love to hear suggestions.

Speaking of climbing up stairs, Bryce has become very proficient at climbing stairs. He still doesn't crawl - he does the army crawl thing. He likes to get up on his hands and knees, so it surprises me that he doesn't want to try crawling. He is still a very good baby and we consider ourselves very lucky to have him.

To add some humor (although this is kind of gross), Chase made a funny comment the other day. While changing diapers I found that Mason had diarrhea. I asked Chase if he knew what diarrhea was and he replied, "that's when it comes out real fast."

The next night I was getting ready to read to Chase and grabbed his Book of Mormon chart off the dresser. For every chapter we read together he gets to put a star on the chart to mark his progress. I found that he had put a star on the chart on his own and I explained to him that he can only put a star on the chart if we read together. I then started to read and he began repeating all the words as I read. He apparently took my words literally when I said we had to read together.

Finally, Emilie and I took all the kids to Idlewild Park on Saturday to participate in the "Walk in Memory, Walk for Hope" suicide prevention walk. It's been a while since I've spent much time at Idlewild, but I had some serious flashbacks while walking around. I had completely forgotten that there used to be a little miniature train that went around the park until we came across the little tracks that are still in place. The giant rocket was gone, as were all the rides. In their place was a regular old park. Boo. I say bring the old Idlewild back.