Happy New Year!

Christmas was wonderful! We had such a great time with our family. Blair loved getting to be with his grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins! We live in such an isolated state right now that having people- other than his mama and daddy- around him was awesome. It was funny to watch him watch everyone else.

We had great plans to do a lot of things over the Christmas holiday that did not happen. We thought that we would finally get out to some friends houses for parties, go see santa and most importantly get back to St. Peter's for Christmas Eve service. We realized that while we are definitely ready to get out and do more it is not time yet. We have made it this far without any unnecessary colds, viruses or flus so why start now.... So we regretted to all of the parties and decided to stay home again from church, but we still had a great Christmas. We are lucky to have a great priest and friend who remembered us and brought church to us. We certainly miss St. Peters!

While we did not do a lot of the things that we thought that we would do, we did alter our strict little schedule! Blair slept at his grandmother's and his aunt's house. He did great, and now we are feeling like we can do more and more....

For the last week, Blair has been SITTING UP to eat in his booster seat. He looks SO BIG in that chair. AND, I was right, he now has a tooth. He cut his first tooth yesterday and the 2nd one will be here very soon. It is crazy how wonderful and sad that can feel all at the same time. When Stephen got home last night, I told him that I had some news..... I told him that Blair definitely had a tooth. Even though, we both knew that it was coming, Stephen's mouth dropped. Then, I showed him the new sharp little guy, and Stephen looked at me with those sweet little eyes and said "this is so exciting but I am a little sad too." We only want Blair to grow and be stronger every day, but we are enjoying him so much that we just wish that we could stop the time. I know that every parent feels these amazing feelings of love for their children, but it is something that no one can accurately describe until until you are experiencing it for yourself!

How grateful we are for our sweet little Blair!