Climbing and generally getting into trouble

Lillian has always wanted to get the remotes from the end table.  It was attractive to Simon as well, so we started pushing the table back and having the two couches touch so that no children could squeeze in. Simon learned and stopped trying and we got lax, then Lillian started trying and we became vigilant again.  Lillian is intense about it - she squeezes, she grunts, she pushes, she wants IN. 

A few weeks ago I was getting food ready in the kitchen and heard an unhappy noise from Lillian in the other room. I came in to see her tipped into the corner, literally upside down with her hips wedged between the couches but her head pointed down to the ground - still reaching for the remotes which she had knocked off the table on to the floor. I could barely rescue her I was laughing so hard. (Wish I got a picture of that!) She was not pleased with me for rescuing her - she was this close to getting that darn remote. 

For a few weeks she has been climbing onto the blue kids arm chair by the couch. Then climbing over the arm of the couch, across the span of the couch as fast as she can go and then diving off the other arm to get to the table top. We usually catch her on the couch but once or twice she's gotten over the second arm and her belly hangs in the gap between the table and the couch as she happily plays with the remotes on the table.

This weekend she learned to push the blue chair out of the way and walk behind the couch (the chair is purposefully blocking the entrance). She sneaks over to the chair, looks around to see if anyone is watching her. If she sees you looking at her she just moves really slowly. Then she darts behind the couch and stagger-runs like only a 1 year old can to the table and stands behind it happily touching all the remotes and anything else that was placed 'out of her reach' on the table. She cries like you are pulling out fingernails when you pull her out of the corner. We actually gave her her first time out for doing this for about the 10th time this weekend.  

Just a minute before the below picture was taken Lillian was standing on that blue bucket trying to climb into the play pen to retrieve her dog who was locked inside. She had moved the bucket to a place where she could climb onto it and I saw her just as she was falling off. Obviously my first reaction was to catch her, but she didn't need catching and landed on her feat with a frustrated noise - so I got a picture instead. 

*sigh*