It's Official.....He's A Homo Sapien

Jackson has been taking unassisted steps as he walked from couch to table to chair (and so on) for a while now, but he really wasn't interested in trying to walk around the house or to walk for any distance. If he wanted to get somewhere, he crawled. Things have changed over the last 2 weeks. The week before his birthday, we noticed him walking around the house more and more and, even though he didn't get but 7 or 8 steps away, he was letting go of things from across the room and trying to walk across it before resorting to crawling. Now though he's been walking enough for me to officially declare him a walker. I know that some people have called him a walker before this, but I didn't consider him to be a walker until now. In my mind, taking a few steps from "this" to "that" doesn't count as "walking". It is certainly a big step toward walking, but it only counts in my book as "walking" when it becomes one's primary mode of transportation. Jackson has reached that point. He still crawls, mind you, but the crawling is getting more and more limited. He will crawl when: we are playing chase/tag, he is sitting on the floor playing with a toy and wants a toy that is a few feet away, or he fell down from walking. I'd say that he is walking about 80% of the time he wants to get somewhere now so, as his Mommy, I now offically declare Jackson to be the newest upright citizen of the Earth. He may walk like a drunken sorority girl at 3am on a Friday night in Champaign, but it still counts as walking.....P.S. Can you tell he's outgrown some of his 18 month clothes? Geez, that shirt is tight!