My wife and son received the AOR email yesterday morning (Feb 2 2015). Our application was sent on the 6th of November and received on the 10th of November. Since my application was also included, but I didn't receive an email, I called them today and they confirmed that my application has also been received. On an interesting note, I was told that an email was sent to me as well - though I never received it.
For those who plan on calling CIC to follow-up, please note the following (only applies if you are using the English menu):
Call 1-888-242-2100 and then after the message in french is complete, use the following menu options in this order (you have to make sure that the menu changes before hitting the next selection and don't wait for the entire menu)
1-1-5-1.
I called twice and waited paitently to listen to all the options before making my selection. By the time I got to the end, I was told that there is a wait time and I should call back. On the third time, I tried the above technique and got put on hold to wait for an agent, which took about 8 minutes.
Please note that I am not advocating rampant use of the CIC number to check your status. Use your judgement