It has been a long week! Last Monday we got a call from daycare saying that a little boy bit Hudson on the arm and drew blood. So we had to take him to the Dr. to see if he needed antibiotics. Apparently, human bites are more likely to get infected than dog bites. Hudson has randomly been talking about biting and the little boy who bit him all week. It was sad when I walked in to pick him up from daycare because he held up his arm and said "Bite!" "I broken!" Poor guy. So far it seems to be healing fine without antibiotics. He also decided that he did not want to take a nap for me this weekend and fighting with him to take a nap made me exhausted. He must have not been feeling well because he woke up with a runny nose and cough. He has had a pretty good run of being healthy this summer but I guess this is a sign that winter is around the corner. Of course he gets sick just in time for the baby to get here. 3 more weeks (or sooner)!
He will smile on command on occasion.
Daddy treated him to a ride in the front seat over the weekend. He loved it!
Angel and Hudson watching out the window for animals in the back yard.
Almost the same size. :)
I can give him a paper towel and he will "clean" for at least 15 minutes inside the house. On this day it was wet on aunt Becca's deck after the rain and he stayed out there for about 30 minutes.
Here are a few recent videos of Hudson doing some of his favorite things:
He loves playing with daddy because he does the fun stuff mom can't do right now. In this video he loved it when Zach threw the ball really hard against the wall. When it sounds like he is saying "ma ma please" this is actually him saying "more more please" This is one of his favorite phrases.
I was trying to catch him on camera "reading" out loud but he always stops when I turn the camera on.
He really likes to read books and it amazes me how he remembers things about books even if we have only read it once or haven't read it in awhile.
I think I have mentioned before that Hudson loves to listen to Parmalee and one of his favorite songs is "Must of Had a Good Time". He likes to pretend that he is drumming to it or playing the guitar with it. Although the Mickey Mouse guitar does not play this song he liked imagining that he was jamming to "Good Time" :)
I have so much to get done before this baby comes! I feel as big as a house right now and running errands with Hudson is not easy. Mostly because he is so heavy and it is so hot getting him in and out of the car and the car seat. I always have good intentions of getting things done on my "day off" but I am starting to realize that these are going to be the last few weeks that I have just spending time with Hudson. I am trying to soak it all in. I was a little relieved to have a rainy afternoon today. It didn't make me feel as guilty for not running errands and for actually putting my feet up and taking a little cat nap when Hudson napped today. We spent the afternoon playing around the house, dancing to music, drawing, and painting with water colors.
Nice belly shot
He really enjoyed just mixing all of the colors together. Unlike his mother, he does not seem to mind all of the colors looking like brown! I remember always hating it when the black paint got into any of the other paints.
As you can see, Angel was close by due to the thunder that was going on during the painting.
He likes to pretend that he is going to sleep on anything that looks like a mat.
Hudson turned 20 months old on August 27th. Can't believe we are getting so close to 2! Hudson continues to make us laugh everyday with his funny personality. We are having to be more careful because he is repeating everything we say. He is much more opinionated about what he wants and is using his new found words to tell us. He likes to request what he wants to eat for meals and snacks and has also decided that he needs to pick what color cup he drinks from. He prefers to drink out of cups without tops or with a straw and this has resulted in a lot more messes to clean up. Luckily, Hudson also enjoys cleaning up "messes". He is what we have been up to this week:
We made a few trips to Lowes and Hudson enjoyed the "blue car" cart. He liked going fast down the aisles and yelling "beep beep"
One of Hudson's favorite toys is a broom handle. We have to take it outside every time we go out. Sometimes he likes the broom attached but really enjoys pretending that the stick is a vacuum, guitar, or walking stick. He also enjoys chasing Angel and Wyatt around with his stick.
He also likes to wear his new craft when he goes outside. They are learning about butterflies at school this month and they made a little butterfly necklace. He was pretty proud of it.
Those curls are out of control again.
We tried to get out on the playground early on my day off this Thursday. It was still way too hot to stay out long.
Wonder what he was thinking when he gave me this look?
Pouring dirt on his head.
He is eating much better with his spoon and fork and seems to use his right hand as much as his left.
He looks like such a big boy when he lays down like this to draw or color.
I was brave and took Hudson to the kids museum on Sunday by myself. We had fun and both needed a nap when we got home.
He loves dinosaurs these days. One of his favorite books that we read at night is about dinosaurs go to bed.
Driving the ambulance
He has a love/hate relationship with the sirens.
Playing in the vet area and loving on the injured dogs. Taking after his mommy.
When we got into the kitchen area he announced that he wanted to cook eggs. He was a little confused that he could touch the stove and kept asking me if it was hot. Guess I have drilled it in pretty good that he can't be near the stove when I am cooking.
Carrying all of his eggs
Making his audiology mommy proud. He loved the toy otoscope but not sure I would recommend putting it in water. :)
This video is a few weeks old. We have seen a rabbit on the little walking trail a few times and now whenever we are walking he says "shhhh" because we told him that you have to be quiet to see the animals. He does pretty well with the "shhh" part but then says "Hop, Hop!" really loud when we are looking for the rabbit. Not a skilled hunter yet.
Just Hudson being silly before bed listening to one of his favorite Parmalee songs. I fear that we might have a head banger on our hands.
Update on baby brother: I am 35 weeks and at my last check-up the midwife said that she thought he had turned and is head down now. I have already gained as much weight as I did when I had Hudson so I have a feeling this baby might be a little bigger than Hudson was. Continuing to say my prayers for a easy delivery and a healthy baby in about a month!
Finally got my pictures to upload again! Not that I seem to have time to take pictures lately anyway. I am up to 34 weeks and as I get bigger my ability to run after Hudson with a camera has diminished. He is still quite clumsy when running but he loves to run so when we are outside I usually try to keep up with him to keep him from scabbing up his knees and elbows even more than they already are. Yesterday afternoon he face planted into the sidewalk trying to run to me when I got home from work and now has a scabby nose. You know it is bad when he asks for "medicine" when we are putting on his pajamas at night because he is so used to me putting neosporin on his cuts at night.
A few milestones have happened since the last time I posted: 1) Hudson had his first peanut butter and jelly sandwich! If you know us, you know we both love peanut butter so I have been a little worried about what we would do if Hudson had a peanut allergy. Although Hudson loves to eat he is still somewhat picky and tends to want the same things over and over. I was hoping that a new lunch item could be added if he could eat a PB&J. Well it was a hit and so far we haven't had any reaction to the peanut butter. 2) Hudson is using the potty at least once per day with success. We usually try it around bath time when he already has his diaper off. I am thinking that this may quickly fade once baby brother gets here and wears diapers but I guess it is a start. 3) Hudson (at 19 months old) is officially getting to sleep on his own. (praise the lord). I still sit and read stories to him at night and then we say a little prayer and sing a song or two that he requests. He now says, "Bed" when we are finished and I lay him in his crib and say "night night, I love you!" He says the same thing back and I walk out of the room. He might give a little whine but quickly stops and lays down and goes to sleep. He sleeps through the night and will even lay in the crib in the mornings and just chill until I come get him! I am thinking this may also regress when baby brother gets here but I really thought he would never do it so I am enjoying this time.
Cohen, Melody, and Jeff came to visit us on Friday night on their way to the beach. We had a great time even though it was a short visit. I like that we are half way between them and the beach because it gives us another reason to see each other. Two times in a month is a record for sure!
Here is me at 31 weeks. Will try to get a recent pic soon. As of my 32 week appointment the midwife told me that baby boy was not head down yet. She said they would wait a few more weeks and then possibly do an ultrasound if he still isn't turned when I go in on Friday.
Hudson's first PB&J sandwich
He is getting better about taking small bites but prefers to stuff a fist full of food into his mouth all at once. Seems to take after Zach on that one.
Again, it was near impossible to get the two boys to be still long enough to take a picture of them together. I think Melody may have gotten a few more that I can share later.
Zach was the "slide man" during our park visit.
As Cohen would say, Zach is "too big" for the tunnel slide. :)
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