LizNCO: 9 months/Easter

Hudson turned the big 9 months a few weeks ago. We took him in for his 9 month check up and he has dropped from the 95% to the 85% in everything but his head. He has become a very proficient crawler and I blame this and his bout with a virus (it was RSV but it never got serious) to his decline in growth. Hudson figured out his gag reflex during his battle with the virus, and we found that he indeed inherited his dad's throwing up gene. They both make a loud yelling sound before they toss their cookies. After that Hudson only nursed for 2 weeks.

He now pulls himself up on EVERYTHING and even lets go sometimes. He uses his truck as a walker and anything else he can slide along with him like hampers and chairs. He says Dada a lot and we are pretty sure he knows who it is. He's even said up a couple times in order to get up on the couch with us. That's about it though. He also loves to hold things while he crawls, he always has, however he found some cylinder blocks and tried to crawl on the hardwood floor. Whenever he crawled with the pressure on his fingers from the blocks he would make this panicked cry and just couldn't figure out what was causing the pain but wanted me to remove it. Finally before bedtime he figured it out and now holds them another way while he crawls. He also was flapping some hangers yesterday and hitting himself in the face and doing the same panicked cry. However, when I took them away he cried even harder. They disappeared during nap time.

Hudson is back to eating with full force, he really loves eating what we are eating, so I always try to give him a pancake or piece of bread. Still no teeth but I think I see one barely poking through on the bottom. We discovered Hudson LOVES dogs. He laughs his head off whenever he sees one. He particularly loves big dogs and will crawl right over to them and grab their ears and paws. It is so tempting to get him one. The above photo was his first encounter with dogs, Bella.

While on our trip out to Utah for Easter we discovered Hudson can go up and down stairs (first attempt ever), however sometimes he tries to go face first down so watch out!

This is what our roadtrip looked like

yes TJ is wearing my sunglasses shhh!

This is what Springville looks like this time of year

Some cousin time, yes Hudson is 10 months younger than his cousin Vince an weighs about 2 pounds less. Vince who was a good sharer did not take this well and proceeded to take away all of Hudson's toys!

The woman of the hour Lydia Liberty was blessed in a dress that was my moms.

Next we headed up to Salt Lake to see TJ's side of the fam

we checked out the new city creek center, (I was so looking forward to living there when that finished:-() You may remember me posting this video, I couldn't find my post about it, it may have been on an older blog, that's how long I've been waiting, since my single days. It was super nice!! I ended up with 3 new shirts so exciting!

I missed photos of most of our fam whoops!
The morning we were packing up I found this:

Oh yes I neglected to mention that if there weren't other children around Hudson developed separation anxiety and shyeness, it was cute but so unlike Mr Socialpants (normally I have strangers trying to hold my child as Hudson draws them in with his captivating smile and his twinkling eye contact). When we walked into TJ's childhood home it started. However the day we left he was chasing TJ's dad around everywhere, it was so cute!

In more recent news:
Last night I slept for 12 hours it was AMAZING well I did wake up to brush my teeth and feed Hudson, but for once in the past year my brain doesn't feel foggy. I think I am going to bed at 7:30 everynight!

I'm also the captain of my Ragnar Colorado team and running a 12 miler Mountain to Valley race here in June!
In reading news:
I read part of this memoir at my mother-in-laws: