Our little monkey child is now very mobile and into everything, which is quite remarkable given that she's not actually crawling yet. No one told me that the little monkeys can roll, shuffle, wriggle, shimmy, twist, bend, lean and slide their way to whatever it is that has caught their attention!

She is also trying to pull herself up to stand holding onto everything and anything within reach. Nap times during the day are now a comedy routine of Sophia pulling herself up and me going in and lying her down and trying not to smile or laugh when she cracks me her 'hehehe look what I can do' grin. I know when she's either sitting or standing as it's heralded over the intercom by either her 'I'm really pleased with myself' little growl or whinging followed far too quickly by silence - the silence is always the most worrying, that's when I know she's trying to engineer an escape from the cot. We're thinking about securing a bungy cord to her every nap time.