Ava the monkey

Ava absolutely climbs everywhere!!!  We really have to keep an eye on her, because she rarely stays on the ground.  She is always climbing on something!  This week it was the ladder to help daddy with the Christmas tree, and today she decided to climb on the end table.  She can climb up on these things in less than 5 seconds, it's amazing (and challenging for us to keep up with her).  If we try to get her off the end table or ladder while she is climbing, we actually have to work for it since she has a really good grip!

Here are a couple pictures and video of what I mean!

Ava helping Daddy put ornaments back on the tree (since she took them off earlier)

Daddy trying to get Ava to get off the ladder...

obviously unsuccessfully, since Ava is now lifting the ladder off the ground all by herself (while Daddy is holding her)!