Before answering your question, the bottom line for you is:
1. Wait. Eventually, if death doesn't make it to the finish line first, your husband, too, will get his PR card.
2. Submit a web form when you feel sufficient amount of time has passed. (Note: IRCC states they will only respond if the average processing time, i.e., currently 6 months for CEC applicants, has elapsed since your AOR date).
Now, to answer your question, which I believe is really a philosophical one, it depends. I think normality has been cast out of IRCC's mode of operation. It's now normal for things to not be normal. Does that make it normal or abnormal? I'll let you ponder on that. To list a few normally abnormal occurrences I've seen off the top of my head after having been on this thread for close to 2 months: many people are getting their PR cards in less time from AOR dates than some have to wait just to receive the COPR from the date they joined the portal, many people are getting COPRs with errors a fifth grader would make, many dependants are getting COPRs but their main applicants aren't, many are doing things they are explicitly told by IRCC not to do, e.g., creating their own portal accounts, and it is actually working in their favour (nothing's wrong with this if the system is made to be gamed), portal e-mails are sent out haphazardly, and blatant lies are force-fed to us by all modes of communications with IRCC (ironic, really, when misrepresentation is such a serious crime to them), just to name a few.