crawl, stand, scale, walk, run....crash

After Staci left early for a PT conference this morning, I spent almost an hour this morning chasing Mia around the house until our Nanny arrived to take over. She is non-stop trouble these days, and she is not even walking yet. She does crawl but seemingly only for the purpose of positioning herself to get into trouble....her favorite page in teh playbook these days is to crawl to something that she can climb up on to a standing position, so she can be vertical for a while until she eventually wipes out....meaning, we basically need padded floors (rugs don't cut it). Needless to say, she falls a lot and has gotten her share of bumps and bruises already. Kind of traumatic at first, but we are getting used to it!