feeling surfaces, directions, and great fear

Tilda appears to us be very much more aware of these days.  I've been teaching her to reach out and touch things.  It started with a stained glass piece at home where we (me and her) would stand and look through it in the first couple months and eventually I started putting her arms up and placing her hands on the glass, because the glass is textured and there are the stained-glass divisions.  Well now when we go up to the stained glass she automatically puts her hands up on it.  Same story for a mirror that is rimmed with Mexican designs and the Aztec calendar (though don't tell Arizona).  She'll place her hands on the textured frame and feel the indentations.  Just last week I was saying wouldn't it be nice if when I'm holding her, she could just steer me, and tell me where she wants to go and what she wants to do.  They always say be careful what you wish for.  So now she appears to be trying to tell me she wants to go here or there to place her hands on things.  This is fun because it seems that there is more interaction between.  Obviously, there is cause for fear (great fear) now that the little girl who began rescheduling our days and lives three months ago may now be on the verge of handing out explicit direction.