BBQ Festival, Visit from Papa and Halloween 2012

I have managed to live in N.C. most of my life and have never been to the Lexington BBQ festival.  I love BBQ but what finally made us go was Parmalee.  They have been traveling so much and we knew that Hudson might not get to see his favorite band and his favorite buddy Scott again for awhile.  The festival was pretty crowded and getting around with 2 strollers was a pain.  The food was good and Parmalee was awesome as usual!  We also had a visit from Papa the week of Halloween.  Hudson had so much fun and got treated to ice cream from Papa.  Now every few days Hudson asks "Papa coming?"  Hopefully we will get to visit again for the holidays.

This was Hudson's first Halloween getting to go trick-or-treat. It took me awhile to convince him to get into his pirate costume but when aunt Becca arrived dressed up it was a little easier.  My mom stayed at home with Luke while we took Hudson out in his wagon. We practiced with his treat bag a few days before Halloween but we didn't use real candy.  This made the actual experience even more fun for Hudson when he realized that he got candy.  :)  He honestly didn't know what most of it was but he knew that if it was in a wrapper and we were excited about it then it must be good.  He asked to open each piece after he got it. (See video below).  He didn't quite say Trick or Treat at each house but he was sweet and always said Thank-you.  He loved when the home owner's dogs came to the door and wanted to pet all of them.  He was not a fan of the fog machines that some people put in their yards.  We stayed out until after dark and even though it was freezing he didn't seem to mind.  Here are some pictures from Halloween week.

 Harper and Hudson with the boys!

 So Happy to see Scott!

 Jamming with Becca

 Scott and Hudson

 Enjoying the food!

 Harper just chilling :)

Hudson and his shades

 The sandwich was as big as Luke's head.

Jamming

Worn out

Luke 3 weeks old

Our 4 legged baby likes Luke's toys too.

So does Hudson :)

 Helping Papa dig a hole for a tree.

 Telling Papa which video to watch on You Tube.

Baby Luke is getting so big!  He was 10 lbs 1.5 ounces yesterday when I weighed him.

 We made pumpkin cupcakes and Hudson helped decorate them.

 I didn't get to use piping bag after this took place. :)

 Luke on Halloween.  Almost 1 month old!

 This is what happens when Hudson tries to swing Luke "Fast"!

 The quality of this picture shows how successful I was at trying to get a picture of them both in their halloween PJs.  Hudson was not having it.

  Arrgh!

 "C'mon ladies, are we ever going to leave?"

 His first house! 

Video of Hudson finally getting a piece of Halloween candy!

 Hudson has yet to attach to a blankie or stuffed animal but has recently started sleeping with this really soft teddy bear.  Maybe this will make taking the paci away at night easier one day? 

 He now says he is "working" and pretends to type on the computer like daddy.

 Just thought this was sweet of him giving the baby a paci at Bizi Kidz

My Sweet Luke

All I prayed for was a healthy baby but God must have known that I also needed a baby that slept more than Hudson did.  So far, Luke has been a pretty mellow baby.  He is growing so fast and was around 9 lbs when I weighed him today.  Sadly, I have not had as much time to take lots of pictures of Luke but I did get a chance to snap a few while Hudson was napping the other day.  I see a little resemblance between Luke and Hudson but all of Luke's dark hair and chunkiness makes him look so much different than Hudson at this age.  Hudson is still excited to see Luke in the mornings and always wants to check on him when he cries but he is staring to get a little jealous when I have to feed Luke and I am definitely seeing some attention-getting behaviors during those times.  He also loves to run up to Luke when he is in a deep sleep and yell, "Wake-up baby Uke!"  Very helpful. :-/

He has some long toes!

Just love all of his dark hair.  I think he was born with a comb-over. hehe

Hudson loves to have his snack outside now and just talk about the leaves and the animals that he sees. I will be sad when the weather starts getting colder.

Working on the pumpkin with Daddy.

Awesome playhouse out of a box in the garage.

Not too thrilled about his first bath.

We have a sweet picture of Hudson in this same towel after his first bath.

This is the little outfit that Luke wore home.  We didn't get any pictures of it the day he came home because he peed all over it before we could get any!

His way of asking to hold Luke is to say, "Hudson hold it!"

 After helping to feed Luke, Hudson said, "Hudson Hungry too!"  Imagine that. :)

 Feeding the ducks at the park with Grandma and Becca.

His favorite lunchtime at the park with Aunt Becca.

I am suprised that he shared his food!

Feeding his little brother

This was from Zach's birthday dinner.  He didn't want to miss a bite of chocolate cake!

Pun-kins!

For obvious reasons I don't have too much time to write but just wanted to share what big brother Hudson has been up to.  He and I went to pick out a few pumpkins this week while my mom stayed at home with Luke. He was excited to pick them out but then got upset when we were going to actually pay for them and take them home.  He insisted that they stay where we found them.  Can you tell that he isn't a big fan of change?  We finally got home with a few and he had fun painting his pumpkin.  He picked out all of the colors that he wanted to use but of course it all looked brown by the time he was finished because he just painted over each color.  

The finished product!  He only wanted to paint on one side of the pumpkin and said "no no mommy, Hudson do it" when I tried to turn it around so that he could paint the other sides.

 We also celebrated Zach's birthday.  Hudson was so excited to have cake and ice cream.  He yelled "CAKE!" during the entire Happy Birthday song. :)

 Daddy with his fellow October birthday buddy.  Dad 32, Luke 13 days old.