DIXON – Henry William Lawson is a mover and a shaker.

The first baby of the new year just couldn’t wait to come into the world: Henry was born at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday at KSB Hospital, almost 2 weeks before his due date of Jan. 12. He was 6 pounds, 9 ounces and 19 inches long.

New mother Sabrina Rippy, 19, of Sterling, went into labor around 4 o’clock in the morning New Year’s Day; she felt contractions, but she slept through them. Rippy got to the hospital at 1 o’clock in the afternoon; she got an epidural within a half-hour and then was dilated to 8 centimeters an hour later.