My Favorite Part of Christmas

Here's a glimpse of our awesome Christmas:

But this was my favorite part...

I have a brother serving a mission in Indonesia, a brother serving in the Philippines, and a sister serving in Florida.

None of them had met Little O before. 

We get to skype these missionaries on Christmas and Mother's day. I was SO EXCITED to skype and introduce them all to their new nephew! Seriously, I was so excited! 

Because my brothers are halfway around the world, we had to skype them really late at night. We kept waking O up for the phone calls. It's safe to say we wore him out!

Things I want to remember from the phone calls

• Jordan 'hypothermically' not wanting people greeting him at the airport.
• Apparently, in Indonesia, Katrin is pronounced 'Kathryn'
• Jake saying the sardines in tomato sauce aren't that bad unless there are bones in them

Other personal notes about Christmas

• "Are we bad parents if we don't get Owen anything for his first Christmas?"
• Gavin bought me new snowboard boots!!
• A guy from the Congo joined us at our family party and taught us how to catch and kill an anaconda.

The Rest of November

Aaaand another post that's basically all about our Little O. You can expect many more of these. Here's an update through November.

This video makes me happy. It also makes me happy that he's quit crying like this.

I can't keep up on the thank you cards! It's awesome! We have great family and friends and neighbors who visited us at the hospital, and at home, and have helped us and given us cute gifts for Little O. Thanks again to all of you! 

We celebrated Thanksgiving with Gavin's immediate family. RSV scares me too much to have taken Little O to my family's celebration filled with germ infested very cute 10 year olds. 

Here's our first family Thanksgiving picture! Excuse my awkward posture, I was trying to show off Little O's face.

In the spirit of it all, we really do have so much to be grateful for! I didn't get around to making a list of things I am thankful for this year, but it's not too late... maybe I'll do that when I'm up at 2 am tonight.