Ill have my people call your people....

My agents number you ask? - 0800 SEXY BABY

Check out her teeny wee teeth - Shes got three now and just about a fourth coming thru maybe tonight? They might look weeny but geez-louise are they sharp! When she manages to get her jaws around your finger and chomp down with her brand new pegs you sure know about it.

Erika is getting a bit clingy, shes not keen on strangers, particularly men - she bellows like a bull if they dare touch her... and her Daddy thinks thats great. In fact we are both happy for that phase to continue until she is about 25!

She is trying to speak and her word du jour is 'Boo'. She has mastered Ba ba, Mumumum, Da da - occasionally spits out Nan, and as far as I can tell the dog is called AARGH! with a low growl after it.

With her clingy phase she has also got quite cuddly and its nice having her give hugs and slobber all over my face with big open mouth baby kisses. It just leaves me a little on edge not knowing if she is about to exercise her new teeth on my jaw bone, or give me a spit bath while imparting loving kisses. A little bit of breath holding is involved on my part.

She has decided that she is not keen on crawling and would rather just stand. But her standing looks like she is doing a booty dance as she has bugger all balance and just succeeds in bopping around looking hilarious. She goes rigid stiff if you try to sit her down and when forced into a sit position she bellows and splashes tears down her face. Erika is apparently rather determined :)

She calls by using a high pitched screetch which is lovely. If I walk out of the room it is usually followed by screetching and she trys to get the attention of the dog the same way. Also she trys to make her dummy come to her by screetching at it. I havent seen that work yet.

Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick sick sick...

Erika is now 8 months old and has been sick a couple of times in the last month. She is cutting teeth and is overall a bit sad. Her Dad snapped this pic of her today when she was feverish and needing sleep. She wasnt impressed at having a camera stuck in her face either!


We went on holiday last month for a couple of days break on a weekend and Erika had a practice of being a little Malay girl. It lasted approx 3.5 seconds before she ripped the scarf off...

This is a few days ago playing at home with Nana during the day. This is what she does now instead of going to daycare and I dont know about you, but she seems pretty happy to me...

Too cute!

This is about the last time Erika will fit this bunny suit, so she had to have pics taken wearing it

Erika and Dylan (4yrs) sitting in a chair waiting to go out for dinner for Nanas birthday.

Erika and her Mummy all ready to go out in the car

Playing in Nanas room. She has lots of different toys to choose from, but she chose to play with a pillow instead of the toys :-)

She is not crawling still - she reaches things from sitting and sits back up rather than crawling and if she cant reach something, she sometimes uses a tool, like a spoon or drags things closer to herself. She seems to be getting frustrated that she cant move around so I dont think it will be long before she is mobile...