Creeping, Crawling

Jackson has been crawling for the past two weeks! Curt and I have been busy warning him of dangers, trying to protect our stuff that's still in his arm's reach, and also trying to prevent booboos. :) A while after he had learned to roll onto his tummy, he learned how to get onto his hands and knees and he would rock back and forth and that was fun for a while. Pretty soon he was getting into that position and whining because he couldn't get anywhere. It wasn't long after that that he'd slowly do one hand and one leg at a time, and before we knew it, he was crawling! His first actual fluid crawling movements were at daycare, and when I saw him do it at home for the first time I cried (of course). It was so precious! Now it's old hat around here - but definitely still cute. I love watching his little tushie creep across the floor! As soon as I get the camcorder/computer hookup working, I promise to post video of it so you can see for yourselves how adorable it is. :)

Now that he seems to have mastered the huge milestone on the road towards big boy-hood that is crawling, he's learning those other Mommy-heartbreaking skills pretty fast. He can pull himself up to a full standing position; it went from knees to feet super quickly. He has even taken a couple steps while propped up on things! I'm gonna bet Curt a backrub that he'll be walking by 10 months, but I secretly hope he doesn't. I don't want my baby to be that big of a boy yet! I guess that's not really a secret, is it?!

And now, a special picture just for my "anonymous" commenter. A couple weeks ago I posted about all the fun "Anonymous" had playing with a remote-control truck - namely keeping it rudely just out of Jackson's reach. Last weekend Jackson had lots of fun playing with his cousin Gibson's big truck, and I thought you might be jealous, "Anonymous," so I figured I'd rub it in. :)