Fast Approaching - Our First Christmas Together

In three short days we will be celebrating our first Christmas together as a family. It's an amazing thought when we look back at our journey, going from two to three. We had only a fraction of the whole picture when we decided to add to our family (surely this is true for all new parents). There are countless things we never considered, despite how much we tried to prepare. However, now it's pretty entertaining to think back to some of our earliest times with Nataga. We'll likely never forget his guest house clearing, "security installing", first "dirty" diaper change. Nobody from the house would attempt to go to anywhere near our room for the rest of our stay and the owner would come find us everyday asking "Where is the poop?" in her heavy Amharic accent, quickly rushing it outside. Later we were shown a place far away from the house that we could leave his diapers! We won't soon forget the way he struggled with needing food so desperately that his cries would shock us so much they would send our formula mixing and preparations into the air, all over us, and not into his mouth soon enough which yielded more crying; we won't forget the sudden reality of parenthood when he was first placed in our arms; we can't forget the fright and uncertainty of his first food "reversal" where after all of that crying nothing stayed down anyway, his subsequent bath, and our clothing change; we still remember his first night-terror that was unlike anything we had heard before; we'll never forget the pride we felt (and continue to feel) each time he does something new; we'll never forget his cute laughs and giggles he lavishly pours out. The pride we feel having him as our son through the good and the bad (but mostly good of course)! There are undoubtedly several others we have not recounted here, but often enjoy together. We hope you and yours have a wonderful Christmas, filled with the enjoyment of the simple joys of life.