Hug Twice

Last night Matt was playing a video game and I sat down to watch for a little bit while Alexa was playing with a toy in the next room.  CJ was already upstairs asleep.  After a minute or two, I heard a weird clanking noise, and I got up to investigate.

We have gates on the top and the bottom of our staircase, and I though CJ had woken up and was rattling the top one.  But instead, I found Alexa sitting on the top stair, rattling the closed upstairs gate.  I leaped over the bottom gate and rushed up to grab her, and realized as I was doing so that the bottom gate was still latched.  So how was she on the stairs? She couldn’t possibly have climbed the gate… so what happened?

When we got downstairs I put her on the floor to find out.  At the bottom of our staircase, the very last banister on one side has a very slightly wider opening than all the rest.  Apparently, just wide enough for Alexa to stick her head through.  After which, the rest of her wriggles on through and up the stairs she goes.

She’s very displeased that we have since blocked off the opening she so carefully found. 

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