Top Ten Signs It's Baby's First Christmas

10. You use caribeners to hook four baby gates together to make a fence around the Christmas tree

9. Your Christmas tree looks like its lower half has insufficient limb capactiy, thus rendering it ornament-non-compliant 

8. All furniture surfaces topped with Department 56 Villages have been bolted to the wall for extra stability. 

7. All of the items in #8 have been reinforced with duct tape 

6. The Stockings are hung by the ceiling with care...because if they were hanging from the mantle he'd use them to pull himself up. 

5. Last year's classic outlining of the house in C9 White Lights has turned to: lights on the roof, on the porch posts, on the mailbox, santa's rear-end sticking out of your chimney, and the addition of at least two inflatables. 

4. "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" is on continual repeat in your car

3. You've purchased at least six outfits for the four Sundays of Advent at your church

2. You've been questioned since birth, although indirectly, as to which Grandparents get to wake up with him Christmas morning

1. Weekends with the grandparents so mommy and daddy can sleep in is "The Gift that Keeps on Giving the Whole Year." Clark.