Thankful

After this past week of reflection on the things I am thankful for the list is way too long to include. But, Martin is the biggest thing I am thankful for (surprise surprise, huh?). Bryan and I prayed a long time for that little guy. And, we feel so blessed that he is so happy and healthy. We are thankful for awesome family to help us nurture and watch our little one grow. Martin has two awesome sets of grandparents! This past week my family came for Thanksgiving. I worried that Thanksgiving Dinner would be a disaster with a newborn--especially since I am breastfeeding and sometimes that means drop everything, he is hungry. But alas dinner went off without a hitch. Everything was perfect and hot on the table at the same time (no small miracle there). I love Thanksgiving time and this year was no different. My brother Zach helped so much! It was nice to have a little kitchen slave. This is the kid who at age 5 picked a cook book from the table of fun prizes at the book fair. And, prepared a Christmas Ribbon salad that year for Christmas. He loves to cook, almost as much as he loves to eat! He is 16, and still thinks I am kind of cool, so that is nice. Everyone helped a lot (but then they always do). I will admit my dad did the bird. Mainly because raw poultry kind of freaks me out, and Honeybaked did the ham. Why? Because they do it so well, and they had a kiosk in our Kroger, made it too easy! But, I did everything else. We of course ate on it for a few days. And, today I finally tossed the leftovers.

With it being Cyber Monday, I should mention I have done NO SHOPPING. I have only ordered one person's Christmas present, and I don't even know if it will be here on time. Oops! I better get busy. I did get the house decorated for Christmas. We still need to put up more lights outside, but the rest is done! Mom helped Friday morning while Bryan was at work (Bryan was glad, he hates putting those decorations up). I think it stresses him out when I drag it all out and it looks like Chritmas threw up. Less stress for him this year! I will add pictures of everything soon, but wanted to post some photos of Martin from the past week. He is getting such a personality. He will be 2 months old this week, can you believe it? We go to the doc on Thursday and I can't wait to see how much he weighs!

This is what Martin did while we decorated....slept!! He did enjoy Papa John showing him every ornament as I put them on the tree. I guess after that he was worn out!

Taking a nap on Mamie's shoulder. He was really tired from all the festivities of the week.

Enjoying bathtime. This is the first bath he didn't cry at all. He actually smiled a few times. Then again Mamie was pretty attentive. She was in the tub with him for goodness sake. He kept looking at me like "I hope you are watching, so you can do this next time".