Baby's first Christmas

Has it really come and gone already?!? 

We had a very relaxed holiday. It didn't go quite as planned but it was still a wonderful few days!

Christmas Eve we watched holiday movies, went to the service at the Church and then went home to cook the big meal! We ended up not eating until close to 9 which wasn't great but it was delicious! Southern Green Beans, garlic mashed potatoes, beef wellington, and a huuuuuuuge bottle of Moscato, of course ;)

Andrew tried a bit of everything (well, not the wine just yet haha). He liked the wellington and potatoes especially. 

After dinner we opened the stockings (blog to come about our stocking stuffers), and watched Home Alone 2 - one of our favorites!

Look at that grin! He sees it coming!

His very own remote 

Very enthused about his new slippers.

Christmas day was especially nice and relaxed. We had eggnog french toast and bacon (I spaced out the traditional mini egg and sausage quiches). Andrew loved the french toast with applesauce but didn't care for the bits of bacon.

We turned on the Parade and opened gifts/ ate cookies/ watched Miracle on 34th street and had leftovers. 

Andrew wasn't remotely interested in the wrappings whatsoever but once the toys were unwrapped he seemed to enjoy them :)

What a ham, lol

His loot!

Definitely going to try for an earlier dinner/ later Christmas Eve service next year, remember the quiche, start the Elf on a Shelf tradition and get a cute advent calendar!

Also going to attempt to purchase gifts throughout the year and then splurge on Andrew's clothes for the next year during the after Christmas blowout sales (instead of him having 80% of his gifts be clothes hahaha).

All in all though, it was a wonderful holiday season. We were blessed enough to be able to make some donations, give some gifts, and spend lots of cuddly time with our little man. Hope you all had very jolly holidays!

Next up is the new year! I can't even believe how much happiness 2013 has brought to our little family. We are so lucky and so blessed.

Latest news is that we have been officially paci-free for about a week. Since about 6 months he's only had a paci in the mornings and ocassionally for a nap if he needs to sleep. But we took it away one evening and that's that! Andrew didn't even miss it. We just are struggling with our new routine which is still pretty messy as we try to figure it all out. We set the alarms for 8, Andrew is usually up by 8:30 and he still goes to sleep at about 9pm so the nap in between is being worked on a bit. I think it's going to be that he is up for 4 hours, naps for 4 hours and is up for another 4 and then bedtime. Not sure yet but that's what it's lookin' like.

We are planning a very laid back NYE as well. Just putting down the munchkin and then having lots of drinks. Maybe some card games and movies too. We are SUCH party animals lol....

Cheers to 2014!!!!