How Do We Prevent Falls & Bruises? Please Advise!!

I am in the midst of some serious baby proofing and spring cleaning today. Hope is high speed and all over the place, it seems as though I could start cleaning and never stop. The laundry is never done and the floors are rarely spotless. But that doesn't stop our little piece of HVN.
We were with family lste last night so she is on her second nap of the day. Her naps allow me to run around like a crazy woman with vaccuum and mop in hand, moving beds and furniture to make sure the wood floors are free of allergins and dust!
If there was only a way in the midst of baby proofing to protect her from falls and bruises I would do it. She's pretty confident in pulling up and moving place to place. Her favorite spot is to pull up on the window sill where she saw Daddy doing yard work last week, each time although he's not there she call for him...Da Da, Da Da! Or maybe she realizes his truck is gone cause there are times when I ask her, Hope, where's Da Da?" She'll then wave bye bye as she knows he left for work of some other errand I have him on.
My point in this, was to rest for a moment, but also to share the hurt I feel when Hope falls. My heart breaks when I see croccodile tears and that lip turn and she's mummbling something very fast that I can't understand. I'm sure its something not so nice about the floor that hurt her. The mommy in me wants to rescue, protect and not put her down until she's smiling again...so thats what I do. I cuddle her, we go to the freezer and get her frozen Tigger thats for ouies and he seems to help quite a bit. For some reason she stops crying althoug she doesn't put him on her boo-boo, she eats him.
Never the less, she's pretty tough after a fall, some tears but not always. She finds comfort in being in our arms, nawing on Tigger and cuddling her favorite blanky that we can't leave home without. Today I read what a good thing it is for children to have those comforting things like blanky's and teddy bears....thats another blog to come!!!!

HVN Loves 2 Smile, Play, Climb, Eat Everything, Look Under Things & Esp Her Books

Coo- Giggle-Giggle- Coo

Now this is a smile worth getting up to. Since Hope was about three months old she would wake up talking and cooing. She was a only a screamer when she was ity bity and woke up hungry. Now, through the monitor we hear her talking and sometimes laughing at herself!!!
She has a bunny in her bed (thanks Momma LF) that plays music and often she'll play the music and talk to her bunny!! Those sounds are some of the sweetest. Notice her long piano fingers in this picture...or maybe their long fingers to grip a basketball...hopefully they'll do both!!!!

She's Happy & She Know's It

If You're Happy and You Know It

Hope learned to clap today!!!! So we've been singing and singing..."If your Happy and You know it...Clap your hands"...all day!!!!! How sweet it is when they learn something new!!! Her response time is so quick too!!

HVN's 10 Month Photo Shoot

My Best Yard Sale Find So Far

An outdoors girl is what she is, I'm afraid her daddy really prayed for that! She loves to go outside. I found this pink bug at a yard sale and she absolutely loves it. We take a few trips around the driveway at least morning and afternoon of each day, with Riley tagging along behind us!
Yes, I see her tongue! She hasn't stopped rubbing it across her teeth since the 4th one on top came through!