My doctor kept telling me that my DD was very active (I didn't really know as she was my first so nothing to compare her too). All I knew was that she was quite strong - if I was spooning DP in bed, she would quite often kick him in the back!

But active doesn't necessarily mean hard work. My DD is always doing/looking at something. Messing with her hands, messing with her feet, oh look Dad's filling the kettle, now he's walking over there, where's the block, there's the block. But she hardly every cries and is VERY calm (people tell me she's very placid) which I put down to the fact that her mind is very active and she easily finds something to amuse herself with. So she's actually very low maintenance.