Stair Master

As you may know, at just over nine months now, Riley is crawling all over the place. Gone are the days of leaving her and coming back a few seconds later. She either follows or takes her own direction.

She has even mastered the stairs - up that is. She quite happily climbs the stairs to the fron door and to Dom's flat. She is not too sure about down but seems to be starting to understand that she needs to turn around to get down.

We even bought her a waling trolley which she is taking to quite well. She moves around the house with it though we still follow around like over protective parents, just till her balance is right and she realises that she cannot walk into the trolley, which she seems to want to do all the time.

Grandpa also had great delight in teaching her to unpack the blocks!

Helping hands make quick dressing

Riley has become quite interactive in the mornings. She has taken to helping me get dressed.

She waits for me to put my clothes on the bed, then takes my socks and waits for me to ask for them.

She then very efficiently "ta's" the to me.

She has also started with the words: ta, tata, ma, da.

101 uses for a Leather Lounge Suite

Riley is now nearly 9 months old (two days to go). Hard to believe how grown up she can be, and how cute and funny. She picks up new tricks almost daily, and is always learning.

Last night while waiting to bath she was on the leather lounge suite, crawling around, when she started blowing "zurbits" on the leather. Don't know where she got the idea from, but it went on for quite a while.

The other cute thing she has done is talk down the pool hoses, and listen to the unusual sound.