A/N: Remember the format is different. These are just snippets of events in Burke and Cristina lives with their son. Enjoy!

First Word

Cristina and James were asleep on her bed with Alex lying next to them watching TV. After a while James woke up and crawled onto Cristina trying to wake her. Alex picked him up and started to play with him letting Cristina sleep a bit longer.

After a couple of tickle sessions they moved onto peek a boo. When James got board he started to climb on Alex to remove his hands form his face.

"Dadda." Alex stopped playing with him not sure he heard correctly. When James smiled and said it again Alex let out a laugh of disbelief. It was James first word.

"Cristina wake up!" Alex said shaking her arm. She had to hear her son's first word.

"What?" she groaned. Ignoring her, his attention returned to James.

"Say Dadda."

James just looked at Cristina who was now awake and started to crawl towards her. "Come on say dada." Alex asked as James ignored him. Looking at Cristina, "He said dada."

"Can you say dada?" Cristina asked James as she picked him up. He just smiled at her as his little hands went for her hair.

"He said it." Alex replied to Cristina look of disbelief. Cristina tired to get James to say it and after no success she turned to Alex, "You probably just imagined it."

"No I didn't he said…"

"Dadda!" James said noting the attention was being taken away from him.

"Oh my god he said his first word!" Cristina said in excitement, placing a kiss on the child's head. "You can't tell Burke" Cristina said warning Alex. "He's sensitive about this stuff and he already doesn't like you now that we're dating."

"Fine I won't tell him" he said reluctantly, turning his attention back to James. "Say Dadda."

"No say mom." Cristina said. "A child's first word should be mom."

"Dadda!" James said with a smile his hands still in Cristina's hair. Alex let out a triumph laugh. "You're just jealous."

"Oh, shut up. You aren't even his father."

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First Birthday

"What's this?" Cristina asked when Burke handed her an envelope.

"It's an invitation." Taking the card out of the envelope it had a big one on the cover.

"Oh. How nice of you to invite me to our son's birthday party." Cristina said sarcastically.

"Well it's more than I got from you." Burke said.

"You didn't get one from me because I'm not doing anything."

"How could you not do anything?" Burke asked in disbelief. It was their son's first birthday. He had to restrain himself from having clowns and ponies at the party. That would be for a later time.

"First of all he's turning one and he won't know what's going on. Second why would we have to different parties for him?"

"Cristina a baby's first birthday is very important. How could we not doing anything."

"Apparently we are doing something." She said holding up the card.

"No I'm doing something." He said taking the card from her.

"Well the card says it's happening at my house. So it's our party." She said snatching the card back.

"Fine but you're going to help decorate." He said flashing her a smile. "I'm bringing a friend." He said changing the subject before she could say no to decorating. It was still uncomfortable with the dating different people situation. He wasn't sure he could ever get used to seeing her with a boyfriend. He finally had starting dating and it was still felt awkward telling her about women he was seeing.

"Then she can help you decorate." Cristina said before walking away.

Cristina rolled her eyes when she walked into her house it was full of people she didn't know. Burke had invited parents from the nursery. He was the one who liked talking to the other parents at the nursery. She'd grimace every time he'd set up a play date for their son.

Working her way through her house she found Burke with James in his arms talking to his female campaign. It didn't bother her as much to see him dating, it did however bother her when their son was bait. The park was full of sluts who would use kids to try to get a date. Burke was too polite to tell them to get lost when they came up and commented on how cute James was even though all the while they were flirting with him. Walking up she took their son out of Burke's arms and announced it was time to cut the cake. The sooner she could get these people out of her house the better.

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First Step

It was their Sunday dinner, Burke had made them call a truce during their fights on how they would raise their son together and not actually be a couple. Even though he wanted to try to make things right with her she didn't want to try again. So Sunday dinner was their chance for their child to have both parents in the room without their being any hostility or awkwardness. It was important for both of them to have a good relationship with each other despite their past. Cristina childhood had been spent with her parents hating each other and they didn't want that for James.

Burke would come over and cook them dinner, and over dinner they'd discus James. After dinner they'd play with him and when he learned to crawl they'd chase after him. This soon became one of their favorite times it was almost like they were a family.

After dinner Burke and James were on the floor playing with the educational puzzles Burke had bought. When Cristina joined them James was ready to do something else. Pushing himself up to stand, he held onto the couch as he walked towards his mother. Cristina smiled as he crawled into her lap. Cristina held him up so he could walk back towards Burke.

Burke held out his arms waiting for his son. Burke's eye's opened wide when James let go of the couch and took a few unsteady steps towards his father.

"He's walking" Cristina said never taking her eyes off her son. Soon James lost his balance and fell onto the ground. Burke proudly picked him up and placed a kiss on his forehead.

Cristina got up and went into the bedroom for the video camera. Standing James against the couch with Burke not too far away with the video camera in his hands. They waited for him to let go and walk so they could capture it on camera. After a while James gave them what they wanted.

Burke marveled as his son walked towards him. These were the moments Burke lived for, watching his son grow up. He was grateful that he had the chance to be apart of them.