Trouble? No. More Work for Me? You Betcha!
When everyone would say "Oh you're in trouble" or "you'll be in trouble" about Li'l Miss M(onster) learning to walk, I thought, "Seriously!? How much worse could it be? She already gets in to EVERYTHING. She already is fast as can be. She already pulls up on everything. She's already sneaky, sneaky, sneaky. So - really - how much worse could it be?"
It's so much worse.
Wanna know why?
Because now not only is she mobile, so are THINGS. She has two hands that she can USE. To TRANSPORT things. When she was just crawling, she'd have to use her mouth. (??? I know, she's a nut) But now she can have one thing in each hand and a third in her mouth if she so chooses. Messes seem to follow her every where she goes.
But - wow has it cut down on time spent having to entertain the child. She walks everywhere and that seems to be enough for her. She explores all on her own and just wanders and wanders. Sometimes in the same small circle over and over. But it keeps her entertained and she knows very well it keeps us entertained as well. She's a show off so her having yet another way to do so is just fine with her. Us too. Even if it does mean everything in the house now has legs.