Christmas Adventures

For Christmas this year, Julie and I decided to drive down to my brother's place in Alexandria, Virginia and watch their pets for a week. Andy is still a little small for a cross country trip, but a five hour drive was perfect. He actually travels quite well; he spends the entire time either asleep or quietly feeding. Anyway, I digress. In order to show his appreciation for our pet-sitting services, Phil arranged for us to take a tour of the West Wing of the White House. It was quite the experience! We saw the cafeteria (run by the Navy), the door to the Situation Room, the Roosevelt Room (which is the Theodore Roosevelt Room when a Republican is president and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Room when a Democrat is president), and, of course, the Oval Office. We couldn't take pictures inside the White House, but we did get a couple on the outside and one in the Press Room.

Andy slept through the entire tour, but we now have photographic proof that he visited his future home as an infant!

Christmas itself was alot of fun; we spent the day opening presents and generally being rather lazy. Andy was as cute as ever, and is already growing so fast. Here are some more pictures of the little primate. Enjoy!

Andy with his stocking stuffers. He enjoyed them all very much, especially the bottle brush; he just can't wait to wash his own bottles!

Here the little guy is opening one of his presents. Just look at the sheer excitement on his face!

Julie made Andy and me matching pajama bottoms. It's all the rage. Admit it, you wish you were as cool as Andy and I are!

After opening the presents, we were all pretty exhausted. Andy promptly took a nap. Isn't he just the cutest?

Well, that's it for now. Stay tuned for more pics from New Year's!