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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Hudson is 18 Months!


It's official, we have another big boy on our hands. Today was Hudson's first day in nursery.  So of course, I had to take some pictures.  He has on the same outfit that Porter wore on his first day of nursery.  I am so lame, but I can't help myself with things like that.  He obviously felt like a big boy-he demanded his own chair during Sacrament Meeting and then got in the car and climbed right into the back seat next to Carson and sat down (no child restraint). Yep, 18 months, going on 10.



His pants are too short.



He made it through most of nursery.  Was fine going in initially but then cried during music time.  I took him back in for snacks, he seemed fine and then I heard him crying by the door a little while later.  So I took him out.  When I was holding him in the hall, he kept looking up at me (like he was making sure it was me holding him).  And he was so cuddly!  I can't help it, that is adorable.  




Hudson is talking non-stop all day long.  Mostly saying and doing the things that Carson and Porter say and do. He says so many words, and sentences. He hardly just says one word phrases, they are usually 3 or 4 words.  And the majority of the time it starts with "I need that ___!" or "There is a ___!"  He loves animals and animal sounds.  And he also knows what a car and train say.  He does get confused and when I ask him what a specific animal says he just answers "moo" to all of them.  I think horses and birds are his favorite.  He chases the birds at the park and when we went to the zoo last week he was giddy and ran over to the pink flamingos.  
Hudson loves to read books and when he brings one to us, he expects to go sit on the couch to read it.  It goes something like this: "I want to read this book." (hands us the book, if we don't take it, tantrum starts) then runs away and says "couch."  Some of his favorite books right now are How Do Dinosaurs Say I love You, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Chicka-Chicka Boom-Boom, Good Night Moon, Freight Train and the little ABC and 123 books with items all over each page for him to name. 




Hudson is just barely starting to eat some more foods, like pizza, taquitos and chicken nuggets (which are staples around here).  He still loves yogurt, grapes, string cheese, peanut butter and jelly or honey, hot dogs, life cereal (which he asks for by name, every morning after his banana), honey bunches of oats (he calls them "boats" just like the other 2 used to do), and any kind of cracker or candy.  Does NOT like macaroni and cheese, or any noodles, vegetables, or meat for the most part.  He will eat whatever is on our plate.  So we are going to have to start being a lot sneakier to get him some good foods.  He always asks for a fork when you put something on his tray (even dry cereal) and he always asks for water, even if he wants milk.  When he is done he tells us "out. mom." or "I wanna go play."  


In this picture you can see him crossing his first two fingers on his right hand.  He is constantly doing that and has been for a while now.  I don't know if I should be concerned or not?


He likes to say "cheese."


Hudson loves to sit at the table.  He says "my chair" and climbs onto his chair.  Even though his head barely goes over the table.  



He loves it when we play horsie.


And he LOVES being around his brothers.  


This is the old picture of when he hit his toe.  It finally just fell off on Thursday morning.  The toenail underneath looks pretty normal.   


Hudson has all but his 2-year molars, 16 teeth total.  They have been in for quite a few months now.  He was in the 25% for weight and 50-75% for height.  I have a feeling those numbers are off because it was his 15 month check-up about 2 weeks before he turned 18 months.  
Hudson loves to sing songs.  Some that he can sort of sing a long to and his favorites: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Away in a Manger, Itsy Bitsy Spider, ABCs,  and Teach Me to Walk In the Light.
Hudson is so happy and fun and sweet.  He gives me hugs and kisses (and then slaps me 2 seconds later).He has an attitude and gets very upset and his feelings get hurt when he can't always do what he wants.  When Carson tells him not to do something or touch a toy.  Hudson comes and finds me and is sobbing-truly offended that his brother told him no.
I always ask Hudson if he is a boy or a girl.  He looks at me and says "Baby."  I respond in a silly way and say, "A baby, no!" and he giggles.  It is our little game.
 He has charmed his way into our lives.  We love him.  We adore him.   He is my baby.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Growing Up Too Fast


Hudson is learning so many things each day.  I can't keep up with the things he is saying.  I want to write it all down so I don't forget.  
  • Last week, the day before Thanksgiving, he started adding "Mom" and "Dad" to his questions/demands.  His favorite thing to say right now is "I need that (fill in the blank), Mom."  He says it non-stop all day long until he gets whatever it is.  It is cute, but holy cow he is impatient and demanding and possessive.  
  • Yesterday I opened the pantry door and Hudson saw a bag in there.  It was filled with candy corn from Halloween (which has been put away for weeks now) and he said, "candy corn, Mom."  Then continued on with needing it the rest of the day, even after a nap.  I actually videotaped his tantrum that he threw when I wouldn't give him one.  He climbed onto the kitchen table to throw a fit.  Where does he learn these things!  Apparently, according to my mom, I knew the words for candy pretty early on too.  Gee, no surprise there. 
  • Tonight we drove around the neighborhoods to look at Christmas lights.  We started out saying "Do you see any lights?"  so the kids would tell us what they saw.  Hudson quickly caught on and said "I see  'em, Mom" for most of the hour and only when we actually passed lights.  
  • Hudson knows a lot of animal sounds.  And he can answer the question without you saying the sound. (Of course I couldn't get him to do any while Grandma and Grandpa were here.  And if I turn on a video camera and he sees it, he stops what he is doing to say cheese.  He is a ham and a talker, we aren't sure where he got these genes.)  He knows cow, duck, horse, dog, sheep, snake, bumblebee and train (I know a train isn't an animal, he's a boy so it may as well be).  
  • Words that he uses appropriately are Mom/Mommy, Dad/Daddy/June, Leo, Bobi, most animals, cereal, banana, cup, ball, car, truck, choo-choo, water, cracker, yogurt, bye-bye, book, dinosaur(saur),  head, whoa, outside, monkey, Super Why (just Why), pizza place, slide (wide), park, sock, shoe, shirt, Harry, Wrigley (his and Porter's stuffed bears.)
  • If you listen carefully, he knows the words (I don't know what you would call it where he can't really say the words, but keeps the syllables and sounds kind of right) to a couple of songs--If You're Happy, Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star, Teach Me To Walk In The Light, and the chorus to Away In A Manger.
  • When he is done eating, he says "go play" almost immediately.
  • Starting today, every time Mickey Mouse comes on the tv screen he starts giggling.  But it is almost a fake giggle and then he looks at me for a reaction.  
  • Anytime you ask him a question he responds with a "no" or "uh uh."  He also will only accept the word "NO" from his dad.  When I say it, he laughs at me.  
  • He is very good at folding his arms for prayer and does it with or without being asked.  



He pays such close attention to the other boys and does so many things that they do.  He is funny and spunky and is so darn cute.  I love him.  I took have taken him to nursery a couple of times, just for a couple of minutes while I do something in Primary and both times when it's time to go, he freaks out and arches his back to get out of my arms.  He just wants to play all the time.  Poor kid, I just don't let him play enough, I guess.




Friday, September 2, 2011

Carson's Skills

Carson had habilitation with Bobi today.  She has been helping him write and color and do workbooks, which he loves. She let him keep one of her pencils, that is a little bit bigger and chubbier.  He and Porter were taking turns using it and drawing.  Usually they put chicken scratch all over and then tell me what it is.  And I of course, tell them it's beautiful.  So when Carson told me he drew "Carson" I was surprised to see this.  I told him how much I loved it and asked him if he would write his name on the paper so I would know who it is.  He did.  I did not know he could do it.  It was really cute too, because he kept saying what each letter does, like "down and around".  He wanted to keep it but I had to scan it first, so it will forever be saved.  Now he wants to hang it up in his room.  I give it a week in there.  (So thanks to my neighbor, Marian, for letting me use her scanner!)
The first picture is the original, the second one is with my labels.
Carson is always full of surprises. Love him.







Monday, August 29, 2011

Catching Up

8/12/11

A couple of weeks ago we went to Tonto Natural Bridge with another family from our ward.  It was a nice little hike and a cool thing to see.  But it was still hot.  Travis and Carson walked down under the actual bridge (I stayed back with Porter and Hudson since it was climbing on rocks and stuff).  They played around in the water.  I didn't have my camera, but this is one that Joe took of Carson and Keelie.  They are the same age and in the same Primary class.  
After we were done with the hike, we ate peanut butter sandwiches ("we" meaning the kids, because just the smell of peanut butter pretty much makes me want to vomit) and sat around.  The kids found a little stream that was probably a foot wide.  They managed to get completely soaked and we had no extra clothes for them.  Oh and also, Hudson puked in the car on the way down, we think he got carsick from the curvy road.  So Hudson and Porter only had diapers on the whole way home and Carson had on clothes that were sopping wet, he could  barely walk.  We also decided to eat at El Rancho in Payson on the way home.  It was pretty stinkin' good.  But again, two kids in only diapers at a restaurant? Total white trash. We had a fun little Saturday morning.


8/25/11





Last week we had another playdate with the not-so-little-babies from the ward.  The first picture was last week, the second picture was last September when we did the first playdate.  In the first picture it looks like Hudson and Abby don't want cooties from each other.  (Sidenote:  Did you ever play 'Cootie' as a kid? Where you put together a caterpillar-type thing?  I used to love that game.)  There were a couple different kids in each picture, we have yet to get one with everyone!  I think Hudson missed the picture the second time around.  And it was a bit more crazy now that they are all moving and independent!


Hudson was the only one that wouldn't sit down.  Of course, he was the only one without something in his hand, I think.  Amateur.


8/26/11-8/28/11
Carson enjoying the pool and the big, fast waterslide that he must have gone down 50 times.

Last weekend we went to Lake Havasu for a little weekend get-away.  Obviously not from the heat since it was 117 or something there on Saturday.  We went with another family.  One of Travis' good friends, Courtney and his family.  It was pretty hot and Friday night was brutal because Carson didn't want to go to bed and he woke up the other two boys at about 11pm.  We were all in this little room and all 3 of them were screaming.  Porter and Hudson were scared and Carson was yelling and laughing.  I was so mad.  He was bouncing off the walls in that room and couldn't calm down.  Also he could reach the latch on the door to get out and run down the hall.  Yeah, seriously, that annoyed me.  Why would a hotel/resort put a latch on a door that a 3 year old can reach?  I guess it is probably more so people don't get in but seriously, think about it?  It sucked.  But we all finally got to bed and on Saturday morning, I realized that Travis had brought his laptop and streaming Netflix did the trick during down time.  
Friday night we went out to eat and then Travis and Carson went swimming while I put the other 2 to bed.  Then first thing Saturday morning we went to the beach.  The kids loved the beach.  Carson especially loved driving  the jet ski and using Hudson's float as a kickboard.  Porter loved the playground and drinking the lake water, which I tried not to get him to do.  Especially after the homeless guy took a bath in it about 10 feet from us, with a cigarette in his mouth the whole time.  Sick.  And Hudson just loved kicking and splashing but got pretty tired.  Travis took Carson and Porter on the jet ski and then Courtney took 2 of his boys. Travis said Carson wanted to steer the whole time and Porter didn't move or laugh or anything.  He was probably totally scared.


In the afternoon, Hudson, Porter and Travis took a nap while I took Carson down to the water slide that he wouldn't stop talking about.  I went first and it went pretty fast, I thought he would come out scared.  Yeah right.  We went back upstairs and got the others to come play for the rest of the afternoon.  It was also the first time we put floaties on Porter.  He cried when we tried to put them on, but when he finally figured out how to use them he loved it.  He asked to get out of the pool about 2 hours later when our fingers and toes were all wrinkled.




Carson and Porter trying to dry off.


Nobody really got sunburned, thank goodness.  But Carson's and Porter's faces had these red spots under their eyes and on their noses.  Carson's even had finger marks.   Apparently, I am horrible at applying sunscreen.


I got Porter's swim shorts at JCPenney last week for $1.78.  Sweet!  AND his favorite color is orange.  He insists on wearing it.


I didn't get a picture of the waterslide, but this shows the end of it.  It was pretty big and scary for a 3 year old, but Carson sure had a blast.  I think Hudson is getting ready to splash in this picture.  Since he was in the lake and pool all day saturday, he got in plenty of splashing time.  Now when we give him baths he goes crazy and gets the whole bathroom wet.  Carson was cracking up because he was getting splashed.


Friday night we went out to dinner to this Steakhouse that was in the middle of nowhere and way too overpriced.  None of use were very happy with the food and I was very parched (which means I didn't get refills, which is a huge no-no in my book).  BUT I am in love with this picture of Carson and Travis.  He is so cute... sometimes... when he isn't yelling at the top of his lungs... at midnight... and waking everyone up.


Porter and Daddy, Popo in his new favorite orange shirt.  Yet another JCPenney find for $1.78 


I didn't want to put this picture in, but Hudson is in it. Isn't he the sweetest?!


Hudson puts one foot over the tray on the stroller, just like Carson and Porter both did at his age.  I don't know why but that cracks me up.  
The next morning before we left town, we went down to the real London Bridge.  I guess they took it apart and sent it to Lake Havasu City, AZ and reassembled it.  I didn't really get it.  Why did they pick there out of all places?



Our attempt at a family picture.  Did I mention it was really hot there?  I was sweaty and gross and ready to go home.  But aren't those boys so handsome?


A fun trip.  Even the car ride when Carson decided to sing all of his children's songs at the top of his lungs over our music for most of the car ride.  Hudson and Porter fell asleep.  Then Carson said, "Porter, wake up, we are here! CockADoodleDoo, Porter!"  It was pretty cute.


When we got home we gave the kids much needed baths (since they didn't get any all weekend) and set up the fish tent and let them watch a movie.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Busy, Busy




 


I don't know what he had dreams about last night but it must have been climbing.  He woke up this morning and has been getting onto everything.  As soon as he went into Carson's room, he climbed on his bed.  I don't think he has ever done more than stand up next to it.  Here he is on a chair trying to get Carson's schedule.  Happy as can be, climbing all over!
In other journaling news, his molar came in last week.  Ta-Da! (I watched Modern Family last night)  That thing has been so close for weeks.  So now he has 9 teeth!  What a big boy.  He is also working on his vocabulary.  He can say (repeat), Daddy, Mommy, yogurt, cheese, thank you, ball, eat, Popo (Porter) and Bobi.
I love you Hudson.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Preschool

Carson started preschool this year.  It is his second year in the public schools.  He goes to the same school, same classroom, goes on the same days and at the same time, has the same teacher, same bus drivers and is loving it so far.  Summer felt long and short at the same time.  It was weird.  Carson was really excited to get to go back.  
We went to "Meet the Teacher" a couple days before school started and he couldn't stop smiling.  He was so happy to have me in there with him and showing me all the stuff that they do.  Then last Thursday when he finally got to go, we waited outside for the bus.  When Carson saw it come around the corner, he seriously had the biggest smile I have ever seen and he started giggling.  And he ran up to the bus and got on.  Such a difference from last year when I had to pry him off of me, into his seat.  And he was crying and I was sad.  But now he is almost 4 and he "growed bigger."  At least that is what he always tells me.  
I only posted a couple of pictures of his first day, out of the zillion that I took.  
I think he was excited and maybe a little bit nervous/anxious, because he let me take pictures of him, he held up his sign and looked at me when I asked.  And he was really quiet while waiting.  Hard to tell since he probably doesn't know if that is how he felt, but it seemed a little that way to me.  He is so darn cute. 
 Oh and he got a new green backpack that he was so happy about.  Green is his favorite color, he even tells me his eyes are green (even though they aren't) because he likes it so much.