A much brighter note... my daughter

I have a captivating 9 month old little girl. Daily I am humbled by how much she is progressing while I waste entirely too much time on the couch. Yesterday alone she did several firsts, such as doing the sign for "more," indicating that she wanted more milk, she stood up in her crib by herself, and she breached two separate barriers- first crawling over the bottom rungs of a chair and over a step into our nasty dirty back porch mud room, then pushing aside and crawling around the clothes drying rack to escape the kitchen. She is becoming nearly impossible to contain, which is where/when all these modern gadgets come into play... you know, like taser guns. No, really more like baby gates and safety latches for cabinets. Parenthood sure has been a dynamic journey so far- maybe I'm not just sitting on the couch after all.