Santa came early this year in the Nickerson household.

Look what Abel got already.

After 10 days of an awful cold and horrific diarrhea, two beautiful pearly whites popped up within two days of each other. I feel like a bad mom too. I didn’t even discover his first tooth. How awful is that? I had checked the day before because so many moms have told me that when they get a cold and diarrhea together…it usually means teeth are coming. I kept checking. Nothing. Then we went to my sister’s house on Thursday to take their family pictures for Christmas and Kate sticks her hand in his mouth and sure enough, she felt tooth #1. The next day, tooth #2 popped up and what do you know…the diarrhea has left his body. Praise Jesus!

I also got my Christmas present early from my dear hubby. We usually both surprise each other and wait till Christmas morning, but this year all I really wanted was a new coffee table/storage unit/leather ottoman so that I wouldn’t have to worry about Abel bumping his head when he started moving around more. Seth found the most beautiful brown leather storage ottomans and the top flips over to become a tray and an added bonus…2 mini ottomans came with them and they make perfect little foot stools. They came within 2 days of ordering them, so when the UPS guys knocked on the door (which they knocked so loud it woke Abel up from his nap-not cool UPS guys, so not cool) with 2 HUGE boxes, I ask Seth if I could open them early. Seth is all for enjoying gifts as soon as possible, so we opened them up and are loving the new addition to our home. Thanks hunny!

That’s it for now. I need to open shop in the Nickerson Kitchen. Lots of goodies need to be made in the next for days for my loved ones.