Hadley the Adventurer

So Hadley is walking (with her toy) and standing all over the place now, I can hardly get her to do anything else. She is so much fun and gets really excited when she has a crowd to perform for. Along with walking and standing comes falling and bruises. So as excited as I was to see my baby girl progressing I was also a little disappointed when she continuously has some form of a bruise somewhere on her face. I have the constant fear that someone is going to pull me aside and accuse me of beating my child.

Another thing that makes me nervous about her getting closer to really walking is the fact that she has NO FEAR!! The other day I was folding laundry up on my bed and Hadley was up there helping me. She started to venture to the edge of the bed so I lightly grabed her ankle and watched to see what she would do. Would she: a) Get to the edge, decide it didn't look safe and turn around, or b) Get to the edge and decide this looks cool and continue to crawl off. Incase there was any question in you mind she chose B. I do hope she begins to make better (safer) decisions once she's walking!