On July 3rd, my cousin Madison was born to Auntie Tivona and Uncle Randy (see picture of the parents on my family page). I am so excited to have a cousin of similar age! She lives in California.

I am proud of Auntie Tivona as she gave birth to a big girl! (Dad says I can’t use that phrase for any older than 6 months).She was 8 lb 9 oz (yet only 19.75″). A little football like Randy is used to!

Welcome Madison! I look forward to playing soon!

Click here if you want to see more baby picture of Madison.

This weekend, we traveled to the Asheville area in the Appalachian mountains. The mountains are rolling and lovely places, still covered in a thick carpet of forests in most areas that receive a lot of rain. I got to meet lots of people on this trip as we went to a couple good parties, including one with hundreds of people! Mom got me dressed in red-white-and-blue and I got a lot of attention (there were hundreds of people there!). Dad helped light fireworks for an impressive showing, though I don’t understand why you all get so excited about those loud things…that was after bed time. One of the highlights of the parties was pizza making - hundreds of people made pizzas that got fired in the wood stove in the hillside (there was a monstrous blob of dough!). I gnawed on the pizza dough and most anything else I could convince Mom and Dad to give me!

I am still a long way from talking, but have already started practicing some of the key skills and sounds to get me going. I have a wide range of pitches and am starting to work on new sounds also. Once, when I was particularly fussy and noisy, Mom decided to use her hand as a fan over my mouth to make what turned out to be a really funny sound. Though I was mostly annoyed at the time, it has become a game we can play.

Dad recently caught that sound and my other sounds on this brief video. Enjoy!

Now that I am six months old, lots of people ask if I am crawling. Since I use my blog to update my community, I figured I would provide an update for everyone here. The answer is…not really, though I do get around! In fact, Mom and Dad often put me down to find me many feet away from where I started. I can push really well with my right leg and slide along the ground. That, and rolling, can get me a lot of mobility!

Here is a brief moment of my crawling adventures:

Now that I am big enough to hold myself up easily and almost to stand, Mom and Dad have been having fun with me in more physical activities. Recently (this video is from a couple weeks ago), I got to even play soccer. Oh it was soooo fun. I laugh every time I get to touch the ball. At first, I got swung to hit the ball. Now I can even kick it myself. This weekend, I played with the exercise balls (which stands about twice as high as me!) and it was great.

Check out my fun soccer time (and the big grin near the end of the video!)

On a rare treat, I got to visit “uncle” Drew (aka Drew Jones, who works for Sustainability Institute) in Asheville this weekend. He is a funny guy and loves to sign. I got treated to a spontaneous song, which made me laaaaaugh. Here is just a snip-it of the scene:

Today is an exciting day - my cousin was born! Auntie Tivona and Uncle Randy had their baby, Madison Rae Lamberth today at 9:22am pacific. She was a heafty 8lbs 9oz at 19.75 inches long.

Congratulations! Can’t wait to meet you Madison!

This weekend, we celebrated Grandpa Ken’s 60th birthday. He had a nice gathering where I got to see several new people and eve play with a Baby Chloe, who is 15 months old. With all the excitement, I was pretty knackered and ended up sleeping through the last bit of the party.

I realized it might be hard to remember the URL for my blog, so I got a new domain name to make it easier to remember. Now all you have to do is type in BabyAlon.com and you will get here!

Pass on the word to your friends!

Well, almost, that is. I have been to the beach before…but on my trip to Florida, I got the photo to share! Mom and Dad think it is really cute!