Monkey Man

Last Friday night Alex demonstrated his amazing climbing abilities. I was re-assembling his crib from our summer in Frisco up in his room. He was playing on the floor, watching me and admiring my mad allen wrench skills.

Then he hopped up and walked over to the rear piece of his crib and proceeded to climb up it, like he'd done it 1,000 times before!

Up he goes

Ok smart guy, now what are you going to do?

Oh, that's easy, just climb right back down (he did!)

On Sunday we enjoyed an afternoon at the Fort Collins Irish Festival. We danced at the ceili they had, with a real Irish band and caller (from Ireland!), and all of our Morris friends were there dancing too. It was the first ever FC Irish Fest, but seems like they know what they're doing. With any luck they'll be around next year and beyond. It has been blistering hot the last several days, with highs in the upper 90s to low 100s, but on Sunday it was mostly overcast and rained a few times, which helped cool things down considerably.

There was a family of Irish Cob horses on display at the festival. Alex thought these enormous working animals were just incredible.

Alex has been going to bed very well lately. His bedtime is generally between about 9:30 and 10:30pm, and he's been waking up between about 7:30 and 8:30am. He has slept through the night soundly for the last few months without incident.

Last night we wanted to go to the big furniture store in Longmont to look at some dressers. They stay open til 10pm every day, and the place is nearly deserted by about 9pm, when we got there. Alex had a ball running through the store, hiding between the displays and playing on the sofas and beds.