Half a Birthday to Andy!

We celebrated Andy's 6 month and Pop's 80 1/2 birthday. Andrew was quite determine to look at his birthday balloon rather than the camera. We did however get some excellent shots of him plunging his pudgy hands into birthday cake. We sang 'happy birthday' only replaced our own words 'half a birthday.' And of course we sang the swedish version of 'happy birthday' because Muffy ( my grandmother, the lady in the picture) is 1/2 swedish. Of course we don't know the real words that well and I am sure we would sound half drunk to any native speaker but it's tradition! Andy proceeded to have a tummy ache and worried his parents so badly they called his pedatrician at 11 at night. She told them to take him to the E.R. if he was still screaming in an hour. We rocked him and sang to him and he finally gave up and fell asleep. Besides that incident it was a great party. Good times were had by all.

Buy him some peanuts and cracker jacks!

Andy shows us his exceptionally stunning baseball uniform. I told him all about Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantel, Lou Gherig, Joe DiMaggio and others while putting this outfit on him. I also told him about how his great- grandfather (the one he shares a birthday with- only 80 years apart!) once tried out for professional baseball. I told him how I practiced all the time with his great-grandpa and just loved softball. I still wasn't good enough to make even the high school team. Small things in my day bring up large conversations that I realize I need to tell Andy. Because how else would he know? I will take him to a ball game one day when he is old enough and tell it all again to him. In the meantime he looks cute in the outfit.

Matthew finally figured out how make this template work!!!