My nephew Caleb

My brother Andrew and his wife Bethel were over on Sunday afternoon/evening for some food and company. Naturally, of course, they brought their new son Caleb with them. He's a little over 7 months old, and is getting awful big. He burbles a lot when I see him and he's very good at recognizing people.

It's possible that I am almost as excited to be an uncle as my Mom is to be a grandma (no way, nobody's that bad). Anyways, maybe that's where I get it from. Whatever. But he's a very cute baby, and is starting to get to be lots of fun. He can sort of crawl, although not very well. Caleb gets up on his hands and knees, but his motor control isn't precise enough ... he scoots *backwards* instead of forwards. It's pretty funny.

Interestingly enough, Caleb's actually a lot better at walking than he is crawling. If you hold his hands to help him steady his balance, he will literally walk across the room, and you can totally just let him hang onto the side of the table and he'll stand there. Problem is, he loves to bang on tables & the floor with his hands ... he hasn't figured why that if he lets go of the table to bang on it, he loses his balance and falls to the floor abruptly.