go baby go

No one told me just how challenging a 6, almost 7, month old little girl can be.
She desperately wants to crawl, but she just doesn't quite have the strength.
So she rolls until she gets stuck on a piece of furniture and then screams until I move her.
Fun. :-)
She has recently decided that she loathes playing on the floor with her many toys. I think it just reminds her of the fact that she can not yet crawl and it makes her very angry.
What does she want to do with all of her spare time?
Ride on my hip.
I did not say sit on my lap. That would be too easy.
She wants to GO and I am her chauffeur.
She also wants to touch, grab, hold, eat everything that is not appropriate for her to touch, grab, hold, eat.
Scissors, pens, forks, cords, pictures, anything breakable, and anything small enough to choke on.
Replacing her desired object with anything age appropriate results in a very unladylike grunting session or crying.
I must say that this extremely high maintenance phase makes her happy and content moments SO much more enjoyable and quite precious.
She LOVES her high chair. Maybe it's the grown up food association, or maybe it's the view. I don't know nor do I really care.
When all else fails, I strap her in and give her some food to throw on the floor.

She is extremely happy to go on any venture involving riding in her stroller.
Even Atwoods with daddy to get plumbing parts.
She is all about going.
Part of me wants her to learn to crawl so that she will be happier, and then the other part knows that once she can crawl she will be GOING all over the house and into everything that is not age appropriate.
I also fear that reaching this next milestone will bring with it the need to practice in the middle of the night, bringing on another month of sleepless nights for mommy and daddy.
Each new phase of wonderful brings it's bitter side right along with it.
I'm glad that the wonderful outweighs the bitter by tons and tons.
It makes the challenge of mothering such a head strong child quite enjoyable.
I almost forgot to mention that there are only two people that can hold my sweet girl without me in the room without her searching and sadly whimpering for me.
I absolutely love this.

I love being the one she wants.