Andrew's very first Birthday

Like I said, I was not very happy about having a baby around Christmas time when I found out that Andrew was due January 2nd, but having Andrew right after Christmas made the Christmas season even more special and magical to all of us.  Just like all the other kids, Andrew took his first steps a couple days before his birthday, maybe even Christmas Eve to be exact, but this child refuses to walk all the time by himself!  He will take 5-6 steps and then sit down and crawl.  Now he is an excellent crawler, he has been crawling since he was 5 months old, he should be!  But baby boy, it is time to start taking those steps.  He surely has not wasted anytime figuring out how to climb.  The boy is definitely a climber if I ever did see one!  His newest trick is to stand on the handle to the bottom oven and do pull ups with the other handle to the top oven!  Very dangerous.  I'm pretty sure I have also seen him trying to put his leg over his crib also.  Anyway, Andrew's first birthday.  Greg was also off so we took everyone to Lilliput Town to play.  Not really for Andrew but we were to toys 2 try the month before for Thanksgiving break and Sam had been asking to go to Lilliput for awhile now.  Andrew enjoyed it too.  That evening we sang happy birthday and let him have a little smash cake.  The kid grabbed on to the cake with both hands on the sides and put his face in it and tried to eat it like a dog!  It was so cute and very typical of his personality.  The next day we had an Arctic polar bear themed first birthday party for Andrew.  I was really disappointed that a lot of people could not come with traveling for Christmas, but the family was mostly there and that made it very intimate and special.  The kids loved the hot chocolate bar, I'm pretty sure the adults did too!  Andrew loved his cake, again, poor thing is going to get a belly ache with all this cake!  He opened all his presents like a pro.  I guess there are advantages to being a Christmas baby!  And now we have a one year old, again!