Time to pull our hair out...

When the average child is just getting walking down pat, our audacious Tate is going full throttle! He runs everywhere he goes, and he loves to climb!! A couple of weeks ago we came into the dining room and found Tate climbing up the back of the dining room chair to get to the table. Aaahhh! We currently have no real place to sit and eat because all of our chairs (except for Tates high chair and a little chair and table for Remy) are down stairs in the laundry room until we figure out what we are going to do. (Just putting them on the top of the table doesn't work because Tate just finds a toy box or pot/pan and tries to pull them off the table)

His current love is shoes, he thinks it is great fun to carry around and try to walk in everyones shoes (everyones, that is, except for his!). Also, if you look very carefully at this picture you will see Tates first black eye (right eye). Amazingly, he did not get it from climbing (and falling) off something or from his big brother. He and a little friend ran into each other...ouch! We are currently taking bets on how long until our first broken bone or stitches!

In other news, we had a hostage situation yesterday. (see picture)
Some little friends of Remy and Tates came to play yesterday. They left their precious monkey friends, and being the good friends we are, we decided to take them hostage...We took a picture of them and wrote a ransom note demanding 1 million un-marked bananas by nightfall.
To our delight later that afternoon we had a knock at the door. We opened the door to find a pan of brownies and this note:
US ARMY FOREIGN POLICY HANDBOOK (their daddy is an officer in the Army) "As an official of the US Government, I must offically and regrettably inform you that we do not pay ransom. However, due to extenuating circumstances we are prepared to offer you an untraceable account in the Caymans. We appreciate your cooperation, and further state that the parents of said primates will do anything for their safe return."
We returned the monkeys without harm and Remy and his friend Neal got a real kick out of it all! (and what can I say, so did we!) It just goes to show how far we will go to get some excitement in our lives!!