For starters, from our family to yours, we wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

The photo above is one of a million reasons why we are blessed and illustrates our happiness this holiday season.  It is amazing how much faith has guided our family through the ups and downs over the years, and during Christmas Eve Mass, a key message hit home.  During Father Gallagher’s Homily he focused on a simple statement his father voiced a couple of months ago — “It will be nice to have a newborn at home for Christmas.”  How true these word’s are, and what a blessing our Jimmy has been to our family.

Last week, Angie received a phone call from our Church office asking if our baby Jimmy would like to be baby Jesus during the Children’s Mass.  This offer was a tremendous honor, however, we had to politely decline due to Jimmy’s immune system and limiting his exposure to crowds.

It’s remarkable how fast Jimmy is growing, and this became even more evident with us having to adjust his car seat harness.  We estimate that he is around 11 pounds!  Watching Jimmy develop over the last month has been nothing less than magical.  He is studying the world around him more and more each day, and he is mesmerized by those who are around him.  Jimmy has shown a lot of enjoyment, by displaying a smile grinning ear to ear, through reading books, singing nursery rhymes, and of course watching TV (he takes after his Mommy and has grown quite fond of Ellen).  Thanks to advances in technology, Jimmy has even been introduced to family and friends far and near through FaceTime 🙂

The other area that is amazing to us is how much control he has over his head and body in general, this is especially true during his nightly tummy time with mommy and daddy cheering for him.

As you probably would recall, per doctor’s orders, Jimmy is to stay clear from daycare until the Spring time, at the earliest.  The last few weeks have been a transition time for Angie, as she has been fortunate to be able to work part time from home and has successfully worked around Jimmy’s nap time.  Angie has juggled this act superbly — way to go Mommy!

The photo above was taken during Jimmy’s first of many photo shoots to come.   His Grandma and Grandpa gave him an early gift when they found the reindeer outfit, and Angie and Jim knew from that moment it would be the perfect photo to spread holiday cheer!  Dunder and his best buddy Jimmy had a lot of fun during the photo shoot, and we even caught Jimmy trying to ride Dunder :-0.  Out of the 200+ photo’s we were able to find the perfect photo above, and even snuck in a few candid photo’s in the gallery below.  Enjoy!

Love,
Angie, Jim, Jimmy & Dunder