Week 43: 10/21/12-10/27/12

Sunday, October 21st: We ended up staying the night in Raleigh to go to the pumpkin patch (we'd planned for yesterday, but Hudson went down for a strangely timed nap and we wouldn't have had enough time to go all the way out there, enjoy all that there was to do, take cute pictures, and pick a pumpkin before they closed), so here are a few favorites!

Monday, October 22nd: Pop and mini-Pop going for a walk with the puppies... I don't know which of the 4 of them enjoy it the most (but I'm thinking it's Hudson since he goes ballistic when we pull out the pack)

Tuesday, October 23rd: Hudson was sitting on the floor, playing with toys, when Tara (not pictured) jumped out the doggy door onto the deck.  Over the next 5-10 minutes, Hudson tentatively made his way over there, and examined the flap that covers the opening, eventually realizing that it leads to outside.  This picture is NOT staged, it's just at the end of his exploration as he tried to copy the puppy and head out onto the deck.

Wednesday, October 24th: Hello Squiggles!  Official due date is May 9th, but we'll be inducing on April 18th.  (S)he is looking great with a strong heartbeat and adorably jerky movements.  We'll be heading back in about a month for another look at our little cutie!

Thursday, October 25th: Oh, he's sooo Nate's child - guitar and video game controller.  Good thing I love him, now that I've got a mini version too ;-)

Friday, October 26th: Auntie Megan (Rara as Hudson has taken to calling her) was going to a Halloween party this evening and wanted to bring Hudson by to show him off to her friends (she's so in love with him; they're BFFs!) so we dressed him up in his dinosaur/dragon outfit, which he HATED, to let him prance around.

Saturday, October 27th: Well, I guess this is the outcome of the doggy door incident from last week, but from the outside looking in.  Hudson has officially become comfortable with sticking his head out the door, and if someone is on the other side, has even wiggled his way through a couple times.  Guess we know where to look for him if he goes missing, huh?

Week 42: 10/14/12-10/20/12

Sunday, October 14th: This might just have to be my favorite thing about babies' memories: even if a toy is in their faces all the time, when they haven't played with it in a while, then you put it all up in his/her face, it's new all over again!

Monday, October 15th: I FINALLY FOUND ONE! I've been looking for another one of these since Hudson was about 2 months old and his clip on vibrator died (my mom got it at her baby shower when she was pregnant with Blake... 15+ years ago, so it was time). Thank you, Walmart!

Tuesday, October 16th: I know that I'm hindering this whole teaching-him-to-sleep thing, but I just love this face so much that it's really hard to not snuggle and adore him when he FINALLY goes down for a nap!

Wednesday, October 17th: We met Mimi at the Tanger outlet today to work on knocking out a few things on our Christmas lists, and Hudson got to play on the playground equipment while we were there. He loved climbing up the stairs almost by himself and enjoyed it when I slid him down the second half (it was a big slide and I was scared he'd be going too fast from the top) of the slide!

Thursday, October 18th: Another sleeping picture, sorry! He's working on 2.5+ hours at this point, and I'm just amazed!

Friday, October 19th: No picture today; it was a rather uneventful day. Hudson was a little off-kilter, so we headed to Raleigh to visit Mimi and Pop's house, since that always makes him feel better.
Saturday, October 20th: Hudson loves riding on shoulders; I think it's because he likes to be tall.  That being said, he wiggles like crazy most of the time, but he'll sit docilely on Pop for some reason.  I guess he was just mesmerized by the NC State game, and all that movement!

Week 41: 10/7/12-10/13/12

Sunday, October 7th: I decided to make a recipe that I'd seen on facebook where you core an apple, bake it, the put vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce inside and it's supposed to make a sort of healthy version of apple pie... but mine was ugly... and it wasn't all that tasty either. :(

Monday, October 8th: Hudson hasn't been feeling too well, but you'd never know it here. I made chicken rice bake for him and he's the happiest baby in the world!

Tuesday, October 9th: We went to visit Presti, Jake and Bailey today, and Hudson adores her! The bottom picture shows a size comparison (Presti makes super-baby-growing milk, so her kiddos are both gigantinormous!)... Hudson is 10 months old and Bailey is 11 weeks old! The top picture shows him laying his head down on the floor when he started to get sleepy - first time he's ever done this and it was soooo cute!

Wednesday, October 10th: Well, Hudson has decided that, without any practice, he's learned to climb entire flights of stairs (with supervision and a "helper" walking right behind/beside him just in case).

Thursday, October 11th: Alright, here's this week's belly picture... I think our dating might be off, so we're going in for another ultrasound to check baby's size and see if we can get a solid, concrete idea of how far along we are and when that means we'll be inducing.

Friday, October 12th: My high school had it's 50th anniversary homecoming game tonight, so we went to show our support.  Hudson enjoyed running into Suz while waiting for prescriptions and dinner beforehand, but wasn't too thrilled with the game... or maybe it was just that he was bundled and cuddled :)

Saturday, October 13th: Hudson and Toby were in charge of deciding what we're having for brunch today at Mimi and Pop's house... the verdict: Hudson said "straw" and Toby was content with licking Hud.

Week 40: 9/30/12-10/6/12

Sunday, September 30th: Nate's dad (Papaw) came to visit this weekend.  I was a little sick, so it took us a while to get here to see him, but it was nice for Hudson to meet another grandparent.  He started imitating car sounds since Papaw and Daddy were playing Gran Turismo, which was so stinkin' cute!

Monday, October 1st:  The beginning of October already? Yikes! And what a nasty day it's starting out to be - chilly and rainy, but we've broken out our cold-weather clothes.  I'm going to blame it on the rain, but we were sporting some pretty crazy hair :)

Tuesday, October 2nd: Oh, my son is such a diva. He would NOT sit still for a picture as soon as he saw Auntie's cookie... no matter that he'd just eaten one of his own, HE HAD TO HAVE HERS!!  On a happier note, Hudson learned to say "cracker" and "moo" and "boof" (boof boof = dog).

Wednesday, October 3rd: Today we get to see Squiggles!  Heart rate was 187 and baby was VERY active.  Due date has tentatively been moved from 4/28/13 to 5/9/13, but we'll know more in a few weeks when we go back again.

Thursday, October 4th: Hudson is 10 months old today... and wanted NOTHING to do with his elephant for his picture, lol.

Friday, October 5th: We're not 100% sure of our dates after this week's ultrasound, so we're just going to do some pictures and eventually we'll figure out what we're really looking at.

Saturday, October 6th: And this is why I don't do nature... creepy crawlies are NOT my friend! Get me the heck outta here :-/

10 Months Old!?!

One Month: 7 pounds 14 ounces & 21 inches

Two Months: 10 pounds 12 ounces & 21.25 inches

Three Months: 12 pounds 4 ounces & 23.5 inches

Four Months: 14 pounds 2 ounces & 24 inches

Five Months: 15 pounds 8 ounces & 25 inches

Six Months: 16 pounds 8 ounces & 26.5 inches

Seven Months: 17 pounds 15 ounces & 27 inches

Eight Months: 18 pounds 4 ounces & 27.5 inches

Nine Months: 19 pounds 4 ounces & 28 inches

Ten Months: 20 pounds & 28.5 inches

Hudson is ten months old already?!?! When did this happen?

He's taking around 4 steps at a time now and getting to be quite a daredevil.  After those few steps, though, he realizes what he's doing and drops onto his butt.  He'll stand very steadily holding onto something now (no more shaky knees!) and he'll stand for about 1-2 minutes all alone, but gets a little wobbly when he looks around.  And we now have movement on the knees!  Not consistently or very far at a time, but he'll do a couple knee "steps" at a time. 

He's still not really saying most of the "old" words, but he's moving his mouth around trying to imitate words, but no sounds come out, which is hilarious to watch.

Aside from broccoli, this baby will eat ANYTHING!  He's getting pretty good at drinking out of a cup, but will only take two different cups that are very hard to find... of course! 

We're still fighting to get him to sleep more consistently, especially since I'm starting to get the exhaustion part of first trimester, but he's not cooperating.  He loves to sleep with Mommy (though I don't sleep as soundly) so I guess it's not too bad.

We've had 4 teeth before this month and teeth #5, 6, 7 and 8 have shown an interest in popping through with red/swollen gums.  Tooth #5 is the only one that's starting to show through the gums though, so we'll see.   

He's in entirely 12 and 18 month clothes and size 4 shoes.  Still in a size 3 diaper, and as long as he's eating "big people" food, they seem to be doing well. When he's mostly nursing and has watery-er diapers, they get a little leaky, but for the most part they're hanging in there.

He's really starting to show his personality (and aside from the diva-ness, it's great) which is so stinkin' cute!  He loves to copy everyone and super exaggerates facial expressions.  He wants so bad to be involved in everything, so hopefully his mobility will kick into high gear soon to give Mommy a little break.  He's just so sweet though, so I can handle it :)