Did I mention that the other day we'd put the kid down for a nap and later Monstro emerged from the shower. “Do you know he's awake?” I hadn't been aware of that, so I hung up with Anne and went to the nursery. And then I called for Monstro, because I knew he had the baby monitor on in his office (which is how he'd known the boy wasn't asleep).

Monstro walked in and took in the view: Lex had grabbed the plastic “jammie basket” from the top of his changing table, and turned it upside-down in his crib and used it as a step to get out of his crib and atop his changing table, where he sat playing the on-off game with the nightlight on the baby-monitor receiver. Happy as Buddha on the mountaintop.

We moved the changing table away from the crib the moment after we removed the baby from the changing table.