Christmas at the Norman's

The past 2 weeks have been wonderful! Last week, my parents came to visit for Christmas. It was so great to see them. I love watching them with Curtis, especially my dad. He turns in to a big teddy bear with his grandkids. He could sit for hours in Grandma Sutphin's chair rocking Curtis if I let him. And mom loves spending time with Curtis, although he wasn't quite as happy about it as he was when she stayed with us when he was born. He's not quite as content as he was, doesn't go right back to sleep after he eats so he needs alittle entertaining and tended to cry a lot, but I think mom finally got to hold him without him crying.

This year, we were blessed with Isaac having both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off. It's always so wonderful to have him home, especially home for holidays. Christmas Eve, we were going to have manicotti for dinner, one of our traditions. This year, the shells were homemade and I think would have been so good. We invited our friends, the Sibeliu's over, but when the oven timer went off, we realized the oven was broken, so no manicotti, just salad, bread and dessert. It was fun, but I was sad about the manicotti. We got to go to our Christmas Eve service and was reminded about God's amazing generosity. I love going to the candle light service, it's one of my favorite Christmas traditions. 

Christmas Day was a lot of fun. Curtis let us sleep until 0730, we opened gifts from Isaac's family. Curtis got some fun gifts, a little baby gym that I know he's gonna have a lot of fun playing in. We had breakfast and watched our Christmas morning movie, this year it was Courageous. We facetimed with both of our families and had dinner and played Smallworld with our friends, the Moore's. I think it was the best Christmas ever! I loved getting to spend it with our little family and I know every year will get more and more fun as Curtis gets older and hopefully more kids are added :)

Today we had our 2 month appt. Everything went well, he's up to 9lbs, 14oz, which is awesome. Curtis hasn't needed a bottle in almost 3 weeks, which has taken off so much stress from Isaac and me. It's much easier to feed him when he's not screaming for an hour.

On Monday, Isaac's parent's are coming in to town, and we are super excited for them to meet Curtis! We can't wait to see them!

Mom finally got her picture in Grandma's chair

This may be the best picture we got, Dad is still trying to learn my lens

Can't believe how much I love this little boy! I am so blessed to be his mama

Christmas morning with my loves

Such a cute little outfit from Uncle Josh

Curtis' stocking stuffer, I hope we'll have a few warm days in the next few months for him to wear it

Curtis' dress blues, now he can look like his daddy :)

Isaac had to get one of me

Starting to nod off for a Christmas morning nap

Curtis' Christmas sleeper from Ya-ya