Funny Man (Little Man that is)

Hudson often makes me crack up. Today he was just chilling on my lap after I fed him talking to our closet while I was deep into watching Once Upon a Time. I start to hear him go Rawrrrr I pause my show and look at him and start to laugh, he starts cracking up. His laugh gets louder and deeper every day it is one of the most rewarding moments as a parent!


This video isn't from today but I love it!

A moment I'll Remember Forever

Today Hudson and I went to the Gateway mall in downtown Salt Lake, I am looking for the perfect case for my iphone (which doesn't existent). When I started to take him out of the Bjorn to get back into the car I saw the most beautiful expression on his face he was looking up at the sky and smiling with a twinkle in his eye, at first I thought it was because of the blue sky, but then when I looked up I saw around 3 seagulls flying around in circles. It was the best! Hudson is the best! He laughs and chatters all day, I can't get enough of him! Oh and if I were a toy on his excersaucer I would be afraid, he will wack and eat you!

He can sit up who knew?

Today I had a play date with my old roommate and missionary companion Lily, this is what resulted.
As you can see Hudson was having so much fun that when I called his name this is the look he gave me in the second pic of the two. We also discovered Hudson can sit up, really all this development in 2 days, I keep expecting him to walk out of the room now and say "mom" in a deep post pubescent voice, I've always imagined that actually. After TJ leaves for work at night I always imagine Hudson walking out of the room and then I remember he is in his crib and he can't escape.
This is me showing TJ, TJ didn't believe me that Hudson can sit up on his own and he isn't even leaning on me and yes those are my slippers, and yes he can stay like that for a long time!

Lily lives by the capitol so we meandered down to Temple Square our old stomping grounds. We watched the new Special Witnesses of the newest apostles. It made me think about sacrifice. I'm a spoiled princess, I sacrifice little, I have all the clothes and shoes I could ever want, more than I can ever use, I have the latest technology, etc. Maybe not a home or the latest furniture but I'm sure it will come with time. I don't feel like I need to sacrifice those things. The biggest thing I feel to sacrifice is my time spent on those things and turn them to others. Granted I spend most of my day caring for the little adorableness and my hunk but I can do better. I want to do better, I want to look outside of myself more.

We also ran into some sister missionaries one was brand new from South Africa and one was from North Carolina about to head home, if I'm guessing right. They asked if it was our first time there which we responded with a polite laugh. I felt the Holy Ghost as we talked with each other. The new sister was telling me how she couldn't feel the Spirit anymore on Temple Square, she didn't know if she was doing something wrong or what, to which I could testify speaking from personal experience "it's here I feel it, sometimes you just get used to it, but if you seriously mess up or get away from it you will notice the absence of it, but it is here" the other sister and I talked about life after the mission, she is afraid of being weird when she gets home, both Lily and I were a little overly boy crazy when we got home (in our defense we had spent 18 months with just women, you would be too) so I told her that, hope it helps.

My Baby Grew Up Today

One day you put your baby down to sleep and when you check on him he is not where you have left him he has completely moved directions and location in the crib.
Hudson must have some developmentally enriching sleep. As a matter of fact I dreamed that he was talking to me last night.
All the new tricks Hudson performed today:
Mimicking me on the laptop mouse pad with his hand it was really quite amazing.
Diving at and attacking the craisins bag after I ate some he grabbed onto and sucked on it.
Grabbing all his toys and putting them in his mouth not just the monkey.
Moving locations in the crib, kind of scary for a moment I thought he was gone.
Rolling over to be next to me and because he wanted my attention.
I was going through his clothes today too and kept tossing shirts on him to see if they fit, he got a real kick out of this.
Oh yes and Hudson does not like his binky, he usually hocks it out but now that he has figured out his hands he will now grab it and drop it as far from him as possible, as if to politely say "keep that thing away from me!"
I don't know if I'm ready for all this growing up business!

Double Life

Having 2 blogs has been rough it's been splitting my personality in two and making me boring, the thing is I don't like having all our family pictures up for everyone to see. Maybe I'll reconverge the two. Speaking of which husband is looking at taking a job in that state that I love. We've been dreaming up a storm while looking at our life here, not wanting to leave all this wonderfulness behind. If it were up to me I would probably stay right where we are forever, minus the lack of windows in our one bedroom basement apartment, I've truly fallen in love with my life here. My home which I hated for about a year because of it's dark coldness (tip: add another person, now it is warmer and brighter), my in-laws who are amazing (tip: fully embrace in-laws, don't worry what they think of you and don't vent about your feelings in an email and actually hit send when you really meant save, trust me on this one), my neighbors (tip: if you want amazing neighbors move to Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, UT) I think this part kills me the most, granted 9/13 of TJ's family lives in our neighborhood, I have never had such a family feel anywhere I've ever lived. Everyone knows each others names, your neighbors bring you meals for a month when you have a baby, you trust your neighbors, you stop and chat over the fence, people help each other and look out for each other. The houses are small but the hearts are big here, no wonder these itty bitty homes are so pricey.
We found an itty bitty home here that goes for the same as a garganch size one where we are most likely moving.
Besides this we've been dressing up kind of pathetically as Tarzan, Jayne, and a monkey for Halloween. I think that sums up our double life for now.
Here are some pics.
Update: Hudson is actually 4 months as of this week and he know is grabbing his little monkey stuffed animal it is so cute I'll have to post a pic.

He grabbed the fishing pole!!!

Hudson is 4 months now!!! He is huge and teething. Last weigh in was 16.5 pounds a couple weeks ago and a wiggly 25" or 26". He likes to show off standing by straightening his legs and smiling at everyone. He has been batting at things for a while but watch this sequence of events and look for his first grab:

he even held on while he slept, and yes in case you were wondering that is TJ in the first picture in the water at Rockport on October 21st brrrrrr!

PS Let me tell you something I love about TJ, we were looking at homes today online and I kept thinking that I wanted this one home but it is clearly out of our price range, TJ looked and the appraised value is 100K less than what was stated so he starts calling the real estate agent, I would never ask if the home was 100K less, that is like a lot less!!! The agent said actually yes the price is about that now. Granted we're not moving just yet but if I was that is where I would move, maybe it will be bank owned by the time we are ready.
Why TJ should love me, I wrote an 8 page paper for him today, and don't tell him but I secretly enjoyed it.

I'm writing this at midnight on Halloween but it just fit this post more than a new one could do it justice. Something really neat I've observed in Hudson is that he really looks to his dad to learn new things. For example the fishing pole and sometimes when I leave Hudson with TJ and come back Hudson is cooing back at TJ the noises TJ makes at him. I think it's so interesting even from babyhood we look to our fathers to learn things, makes me wonder if he somewhere in his brain remembers how important it is to look to his Heavenly Father. Hudson loves his dad so much, I love it!!!

This is My Baby

Or maybe I should say babies.
Hudson loves fire!


Not much to say today. Hudson is GROWING!!!! He's rolled both ways now front to back and back to front. I made him his football onzie and my sister-n-law Julie made him the ipood shirt(we wore it in honor of Steve Jobs)