Ten months and fifteen days

The last month or so has seen a bit of a spurt in Alice's development, and she can now do the following (all calculated to impress her unutterable cuteness so firmly upon her parents that they will instantly bend to her will, I'm sure):

- wave hello and goodbye
- give a thumbs up
- say 'mama' and 'dada' (not always in deliberate reference to us though)
- say 'muh', 'duh', 'guh', 'buh', 'thuh', 'luh' and various interestingly intoned combinations thereof
- give kisses when prompted (or at least bump her open mouth towards roughly the right area)
- crawl
- cruise-walk round the coffee table/along the sofa
- play peekaboo

Here she is at my poetry reading yesterday, with friend Flora:

Nobody told me I'd be playing drums as well...

A photo from the fun (and gratifyingly well-attended considering the weather) event at Pelham House yesterday:

Lewes Live Literature festival event

I have another reading - probably the last for a while - coming up: Sunday 28th October, 1.15pm @ Pelham House, Lewes.