Hold me close, let me go

My baby girl has had a heck of a month in the development department. She has mastered crawling, pulling up and a sly lean on the elbow that makes her look like she is at the beach reading a magazine. Her petite baby bod is all muscle. I change her diaper and literally envy her the baby 6 pack she has going. She was baby chubby for about a month around 4 months but ever since she started doing her baby crunches and rolling around she is lean and toned. And now when I pick her she does this immediate swivel of her upper body to look out and around the room. Like - "am I missing anything better than mama out here?" So then I think she wants to explore and I put her down but oh nooooo, she wants to be picked up only to swivel around again!! It's that hold me close, let me go dynamic. She wants to be adventurous but only from the safe perch of my arms. I know this is the first of many such moments in our relationship where she will need a firm emotional anchor from which to explore the world, but I am so not ready. I just want her to put her head down on my shoulder and snuggle in. But she has growing and learning to do - and who am I to stop her?