Mom or Dad? You be the judge!

Recently TJ's parents dropped off all his old pictures and such. There were yearbooks with entries like, Hi handsome give me a call followed by digits, from girls I know, and I had a crush on you last year so lets get together followed by more digits. It's true Hudson
gets the lady-killerness from his dad. We also found some even younger baby pictures of TJ than I had previously seen.
The first two are of TJ, the next two are of Hudson (well one of Hudson and TJ) and the next two are of me, I'm the one in the purple bathing suit.

So who do you think Hudson looks like?

Solids!!!!!

Hudson is truly 5 months today! I guess it goes by their actual birthday versus how many weeks he is. For his 5 month birthday we had solids and went to the Zoo.
He had his 4 month appointment yesterday at 4months and 30 days he weighed in at
18 lbs 9 oz
and measured 27" long. He averages about the 90% or about the size of an 8 or 9 month old.
He becomes more and more aware everyday as well as he is becoming more and more dexterous (he actually grabbed his spoon with both his hands to try and feed himself, he will also pick up his jingle toys and jingle them to entertain himself). He has an awesome sense of humor and already is finding ways to make us laugh such as the pacifier spitting and growling. He is so fun to be with and I often find myself realizing that he is growing up so fast. I fear if I too many chores while he is awake he will grow up before I'm done. So the laundry piles unfolded and the dishes unwashed in the sink, but we have fun, and all those things stay there till he takes a nap or goes to sleep at which time I tackle them because I am a neat freak!

Sadly my phone died right after I took a picture of this tortoise he is about 4 feet long amazing!!! Hudson watched him walk around. He also really noticed some monkeys, the giraffes, some smaller swimming turtles, and felines. Basically if they moved Hudson was interested.

Hudson ate his first solids today of rice cereal. We started with some white rice someone had gave us, it smelled kind of gross to me and had previously been opened. So I accidentally happened upon the organic baby food isle. My nutrition-loving self found baby brown rice cereal and whipped some up for him. It smelled good and nutritious. I also did some research when I got home and basically white rice is fortified sugar or as one researcher went so far to say, fortified soda-pop. We will be sticking with the brown rice for now. The same researcher believes white rice leads to childhood obesity.

The Wise Man

Here is the Wise Man, he was hoping to be baby Jesus in the ward nativity, as you can see, but his friend Cora played the role a little better.

Thanksgiving Fun with Family

He learned to keep his binky in his mouth but now spits it out to make us laugh.
Here are a couple videos, I had one continuous one but I think I deleted it on accident :-(


This thanksgiving as is Connolly tradition we had a talent show, my personal favorite acts included U2's Where the Streets Have No Name, by Sam, make sure you check out Ben's dance moves down in front and Hudson's cameo performance in Levitating Baby




Prior to the holiday Hudson's bedtime was 7pm sharp after all of this he started going to bed around 9pm. Here he is around 9pm after having too much fun:







Here are some cousin classics:

5 months

This is my baby isn't he cute!!?? He turned 5 months today I can't believe it. He is the sweetest, happiest, funniest little man! He's weighing in at 19 pounds, today I upgraded to size 4 diapers, hope it works!! He sometimes reminds me of a little lion cub, he paws at things and scratches the couches and even makes a rower sound. Granted he also reminds me of a little man in so many ways. Am I not the luckiest to be able to hang out with him all day everyday?

I think I might be obsessed or in love probably both!

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!