We have been working with Hudson on his B sounds and on doing the raspberry sound and I think he is really starting to get it now. I was finally able to catch it on video this afternoon!
I was so proud that he has been starting to get those sounds with his mouth. He seems like he likes to observe us for awhile before he tries it just to make sure he will be able to get it down! YAY Hudson!!
Mike's parents sent us a care package that we were so excited to get! I love getting things unexpected in the mail, especially when its fun stuff! They sent us some treats and I got some fun Pampered Chef frosting tips for decorating (which I love to do)!! Then they sent Hudson some rubber duckies! Couldn't resist putting a picture of him and them on here together!
Thank you so much for making our day yesterday!! That was awesome! We love you!
Hudson is normally a VERY good sleeper. We are talking like 12 hours a night usually but I must say that this week, he has been a bit off. He keeps waking up at 4:30am, almost exactly to the dot. You could use this kid as an alarm clock if you wanted to get up at 4:30...well since I don't, it tends to be a little annoying! We usually just give him his pacifier and Fuzz and he is back to sleep in no time. But then last night, the little guy would not go to sleep. It could have been his 3 hour nap that threw him off but we were going nuts trying to get him to fall asleep! I guess I can't complain too much though because he has been an excellent sleeper since he was like 2 1/2 months old. You win some, you lose some! I keep thinking maybe Hudson is just excited for his Grandma and Grandpa L and Great Grandma C to come visit him this weekend! I am sure that is it!
Hudson started on squash and sweet potatoes this week and he loves them both! He will just eat and eat them so I have to cut him off! I am so glad he is a good eater though! It was starting to get a little frustrating with the cereal before we added fruit to it. I know not everyone likes that rice cereal...I have a secret love for it but I think I am just odd!
I went to Joann's this week and had a great time just browsing through their fabric. I am itching to start a sewing project so I was excited that we decided to make little quilts for YW. We are giving them to the hospital to give to kids in the pediatric area just as like a security blanket. They are pretty small just 16x16. The girls seemed to have fun working on them and I enjoyed being able to help them sew. It helped with my itch for sewing but I still think I am going to have to do something bigger. I am thinking of starting a quilt or maybe doing our Christmas stockings. I need to decide on fabric and just get going on it! I love sewing and am so glad that I have a little knowledge of it! I want to learn how to do pieced quilts, they look SO hard though!
I helped Tiff with Jordan's cake on Monday. And seriously, it took us all day! It always takes longer doing everything with little guys around! But I loved how it turned out so I had to post some pictures of our artwork. I found the design off of Family Fun's website.
I also have to thank Erica for helping me update my blog! I was so glad to have her volunteer to come over and show me what in the heck I was doing! (Because seriously HTML code makes my mind go huh??) I really appreciate her coming and I had a good time with her and Maddy! Maddy kept laughing at Hudson and playing peekaboo with him! I think he was in heaven!
Guess I have to apologize for not posting much this week...its been kind of a "crazy, a little bit of everything thrown in" kind of week!
I did finish the 8th Work and the Glory book! I am excited about that. Just one more to go, and I have read the whole series, one that I would recommend to everyone to read! I love reading about the pioneers stories though so I just can't get enough of them!
So being tagged in the blogging world is kind of interesting...I actually forgot my friend tagged me until today!! Sorry, I am a slacker!
Job’s I’ve had: SUU Scholarship Coordinator, Office Assistant at IDFG, Cash Handler at Boondocks, Work Study at Financial Aid, Server Assistant at Asiago's, Cashier at Chuck E Cheese's
Movies I can watch over and over again: Footloose, Pride and Prejudice, Italian Job, Anything with Matthew McConaughey
Places I’ve lived: Provo, UT; Boise, ID; Cedar City, UT; Annecy, France; Topeka, KS
TV shows: Grey's Anatomy, Biggest Loser, Property Ladder, So You Think You Can Dance, ER
Guilty pleasures: Surfing the net, pedicures, German Chocolate Cake, massages
I’ve been to: France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Canada and 15 of the states in America
Favorite foods: Chips and Salsa, Caesar Salad, Pasta, Cafe Rio
Websites I like to visit: Hotmail, Gmail, Blogs, Digital Scrapbooking Sites, Pottery Barn
Places I’d rather be: Hawaii, Boise, Europe, out to lunch with good friends, snuggled up in bed with a good book
Buddies I want to tag: Everyone who reads this better!! :) hehe
I went to the library yesterday with my friend Tiff. We were so excited about it. I have been there before but not really to get stuff for Hudson. They had a ton of educational baby videos and CD's. They have a whole room of board books and they have these sneak bags. The sneak bags are awesome because they come with like 4 or 5 books, toys and rhymes and stuff that are all in one theme. The one we got was music. So there is a tambourine and maracas in there. Hudson loves them! Who could blame him really? They make noise when you move them around! We had a blast! Guess we are going to have to keep going there every couple of weeks to renew our supply!
When Mike and I got into bed last night we started reminiscing about the good ole sleepover days! For some reason, I felt giddy like we were having a sleepover. I just wanted to lay there and talk about nonsensical things. I told him we should have a sleepover! You know with movies and popcorn. Chatting into the late hours of the night. Pizza. Pop. All that good junk food. Games. Play the silly kid love MASH game. (Ok maybe Mike wouldn't want to play MASH but all that other stuff sounds good!) I loved having sleepovers as a kid. Sometimes you wish you could go back to those sleepover days and just revel in the moment. I remember sometimes waking up in the middle of the night and just wanting to be home in my own bed though. So I would fake sick and call my mom to come get me. There is just something about moms that they understand that fake sickness. So they drag themselves out of bed in the wee hours of the night to come get you without complaining. If only we appreciated their sacrifices as much then as we do when we get older! Mike and I decided we will have a sleepover tradition with our family. One where we all sleep on the floor and watch movies and play games and just eat til we want to puke! Well maybe not quite til we want to puke but you get the idea! Its funny sometimes when you are a kid you can't wait til you are older. And sometimes when you are older, you try to recapture the things you did as a little kid.
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Hudson and Mike were playing together today while I was working on posting something so I snuck in to get them! Hudson was laughing so hard! It was cute! He sure lights up whenever his dad is around! He loves to play with him.
Hudson just started sitting up and might I just add, he is doing GREAT at it. Mike said he fell back on a pillow and was able to get himself back up. He is going to be into things in no time I can just feel the extra work coming on! He will be a handful! He started this thing too where he screams when he wants something so if he is laying down and he wants to sit up...he just screams at the top of his lungs! Impatient little guy huh??
This was one of his first attempts at it yesterday, at least that I could get on camera. He was a little off balance though.
This was today when he was doing really good...but we had the pillows around him just in case!
For those of you non-Kansasians (or whatever we refer to ourselves as), PAT is a nationwide thing they do here called Parents as Teachers. My parent educator, Sherry, came by yesterday for the first time. It was awesome! I am so excited about it! They have awesome things to help parents be better educators since the little people learn more in the first 3 years of life than they ever will. Pretty crazy! She left me with a whole big booklet of rhymes and songs, some of which I had forgotten so I was so excited and so was Hudson when I started singing them to him last night...he especially loved Where is Thumbkin? I also have a book I have to get colored before she comes back next time so she can laminate it for me. I am looking forward to her visit next week. It will be so nice to have them bring different fresh ideas than what I have come up with to help entertain and teach Hudson. She will usually come once a month and just bring fun stuff to play with and help us make cool toys with stuff at home to help Hudson explore things. I love that Kansas is so family oriented and really focuses on education and helping young children get a great start!
Last Thursday night I woke up to the sound of the tree outside blowing so much I thought the branches were going to break through the window! I woke Mike up and had him go see if there was a tornado warning on the weather channel...I was a little out of it and kept thinking I couldn't leave Hudson upstairs in case the branch did come through the window!! But luckily there was no tornado warning just a storm watch with "deadly" winds...not sure what that means exactly, sounds scary! The winds were over 60 mph and there was continuous thunder and lightning so loud and bright I couldn't believe it! I was seriously scared! I heard that the tornado sirens actually did go off but it was an accident...ummm, should I be scared that we couldn't hear them from our place???
The next morning I drove Mike to school so I could run some errands with the car and we saw branches all over the ground. It looked like the trees really took quite a beating during the storm. The crazy thing was that it wasn't really raining that hard. Kansas has the CRAZIEST weather!
Hudson is growing like crazy and it seems like we have to keep going through the clothes he is wearing because he is growing out of stuff so fast! I have been excited about the new stuff he fits into though. He wore his church outfit for the first time yesterday. We thought he looked like a handsome little dude in it! He is such a stud when he is smiling! I love it.
Hudson finally rolled over from his back to his belly this morning!! He has been threatening to do it for awhile but he finally did it! It kind of caught me off guard, hence the reason I don't have a picture of it!! It was funny though because then he had his arm tucked under him and couldn't get it out! He is growing up too fast!!
Hudson has discovered how to reach his feet in his mouth. I took a picture of him doing it Tuesday night but its at a weird angle so he wouldn't see the camera and stop!
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I had to copy a friend of mine on this because I thought it was so clever! Plus I was dying to know who it would say Hudson looked like more. We always thought Hudson was a good mix of the two of us! But now we know the truth!!
Even though the resemblance between Mike and Hudson is more noticeable at times, the look-a-like meter has spoken! Guess Hudson looks more like me by 19%! I can definitely see it more now than when he was first born. No one ever thought he looked like me!
