A Sweet Baby Memory

Monday this week we had a busy day. Mommy worked a little in the morning. We took a break to run some errands and went to eat lunch at Hyde Park Grill. Their fries and chicken fried chicken are amazing. And so is all of their food. I felt this way before pregnancy too LOL. If you are ever in Austin I highly recommend :).

Side note:  Just love this precious boy! We had 1 warm sunny day on Friday last week (12/26) and we played outside for at least 3-4 hours. It was soooo beautiful and so is my angel :)

Then back home for a late nap for Hudson and little more work for mommy. I so wanted a nap that day but it wasn't in the cards that day LOL. This 2nd trimester has me more tired than the first. Isn't it supposed to be the reverse? Who knows LOL. Anyhow, I knew it would be a late night because we didn't wake up Hudson until 6 PM (big parenting no no lol). We played with toys and then when 9 PM rolled around I gave bubba a bath and we laid in my bed to watch Planes Fire & Rescue. Such a cute movie! 

After a bit I kept feeling the baby kick. Just like on Christmas morning. It was a lot. I'm thinking it was the yummy lunch I had or something because it was non-stop. I called Karl down into our room to feel it and sure enough he did! It was such an awesome moment. Daddy was the first to feel baby #2 kick and it just feels so early for him to be able to feel it. It was exciting. Hudson watched daddy feel and then after daddy kissed the belly and talk to the baby Hudson joined in. It was so adorable and such a sweet moment to see Hudson joining in on the fun. My belly is getting bigger but it's not round yet so it's a little confusing I think to Hudson. I bet when "the ball" comes he will really start to understand it a little more. 

Just a sweet moment definitely worth writing about. We find out what the baby is on 1/13. I CAN'T WAIT!!

I'm 17 weeks tomorrow so I'm a day early but here's a baby belly picture :)

Christmas 2014

We did a few more Christmas fun things before the big day got here. We went to the Buda trail of lights on opening night. To our surprise it was not packed and so much fun to walk around with the boys Hudson and Noah. These two…inseparable…love to play and sometimes play hard with each other. I have no doubt when these boys get bigger they will be playing football in the yard tackling each other, wrestling and just all things boys do. 

We also found out about a snow day at the Hill Country Galleria. We hit that up one Saturday and when we first got there a boy started throwing snowballs at us. It made Hudson cry because it was definitely a shock. He hit us over and over until I finally told him it was enough..where were his parents?…who knows…don't get me start on parents who don't pay attention to their children…whew.

After making Hudson feel better we built a snow man and I let Hudson throw snowballs at me. He loved it but it was short lived as he is a true Austin boy…it was too cold haha. 

We also surprised Nana on her birthday with some yummy Herbert's on the 17th. Took a ride with Mawmaw to look at Christmas lights one night. Hudson insisted on taking a picture with this beautiful house (Bottom left picture below) and that night we saw the biggest blow up snowman ever. It was at least 2 stories tall.

We also did the Austin Trail of Lights with Shee and Thomas. They had a big ferris wheel this year. Hudson thought that was the coolest thing. It was too fast for him to want to get on but it was fun to look at. We made our way through the lights and twirled under the tree as we've done every year. Austin is very packed and sometimes hard to see the lights from Hudson's height. I'm thinking maybe the tree alone is perfect for him. 

We did our tradition Christmas Eve at aunt Brigette's house and let Hudson play the white elephant game this time. He loves to open presents so I knew he would want to play :). There was lots of gift stealing going on, advertisement for "please take this gift because you want it…" and twirling in the office chair to make Hudson dizzy. He's so much fun to watch. I love seeing his wonderful little character come out. Such a comedian…goofy boy. Full of fun times and laughter. He truly is the best. We then told Hudson we had to race home to beat Santa. He was in such a hurry to get home before Santa got there. It was so cute.

Karl and Hudson put cookies & milk out for Santa and it was so cute to see Hudson get excited about it. Christmas morning came and I woke Hudson up. I asked him, "Do you want to see if Santa came?" He tells me, "I really don't want to see Santa" in his little worrisome voice. I told him Santa wasn't here anymore but asked if he wanted to see if Santa came. We saw the cookies almost all eaten and a sip left in the glass of milk. The fireplace gate was wide open and presents were left. His little amazed face was awesome. 

Remember that list for Santa with the main request? Well Santa did in fact leave that one special request. Hudson was smiling so big when he opened it. He loved all of his toys from Santa and the goodies in his stocking. In fact the next day he told me, "Santa brought me everything I wanted." I told him, "Well you must have been a really good boy huh?" and he said, "Yeah." Sweet angel!

We then drove down to MawMaw's & PawPaw's house for our huge family get together. Living room full of presents and family members. Breakfast, coffee and warmth from the heater and all of our excitement. Hudson and Noah were so excited and so cute! I'm thankful for all of my gifts but the best present is watching them open gifts. They have the most genuinely excited little faces. 

Side note:  I had been feeling peanut in my belly from time to time before then but on Christmas morning I don't know if it was my newly tight on the belly maternity jeans, the yummy big breakfast or 1 cup of coffee but I felt the most kicks I had ever felt that morning. It was crazy how much the baby was kicking. So awesome. That morning I was 16 weeks :)

Afterwards we headed to Nana & Pops house to open presents and eat a yummy lunch with nana, pops, hapa, Liam, Shelly & Patrick. Hudson was SOOOOO adorable. Kissing his baby cousin over and over again. And every time Liam would turn with the biggest smile on his face. Hudson adores his baby cousin and I'm thinking the feelings are mutual. They chase each other around the house. Liam is so interested in what Hudson is doing all the time. They are so cute. 

After a much needed nap we headed back to maw maw & pawpaw's house for a yummy dinner and more play time. It was a wonderful day with all of our family. All the sweetness and love. My honey bunny Hudson being the sweetest Christmas angel in the world. He hung the moon for mommy and daddy. We are forever grateful for this precious boy of ours. In less than a month he will be 3. Can't believe it! 

December so far and a few funnies

I love sharing Hudson's funny quotes.

This morning he walks out of his room looking for me while I work on the couch. As we go back in his room to change him he walks over to his fan and says, "Mommy, I forgot to turn this off…I wasn't paying attention." He says this now "wasn't paying attention" because we went to Target and we almost ran into a lady with our cart and while we all were apologizing to each other I said, "Oh no it was me, I wasn't paying attention."

He's walking around with his Mikey mouse and hugs him. Then tells him, "I'll keep you forever."

He asks me to sing "Fly me to the moon" to him every night. It's the sweetest thing. When I sing hold my hand and baby kiss me he plays the part. He even sang it to his daddy the other night so he could kiss him. Such a sweetheart!!

My silly picky son loves to decorate but doesn't like sugar cookies. Just found that out this week. Silly picky boy!

He also loves to sweep. He always says, "I'm cleaning up all this mess." Yeah…our house stays pretty messy. Who has time to clean?

Every day Hudson takes two toys (could be 2 cars, 2 dinosaurs and even 2 hands) and starts pretending to talk to each other. First thing he always says is, "Hello friend." After talking and playing awhile he says, "I have to go friend. I have to go to my family." I don't know where he learned that from but love that he plays and goes home to his family.

From decorating our tree, maw maw & pawpaw's tree and decorating our house. We've been busy little elves.

Lately he's been walking around picking up everything and saying, "Look, I'm strooong." He is very strong. Almost stronger than his mom sometimes. He's going to be stronger than me in no time.

This boy LOVES to win. We're working on teaching him to be a gracious loser but we'll see. Boys are so competitive!

After Budafest last weekend we wrote our letter to Santa and this is why Hudson doesn't want to sit on Santa's lap.

Each year gets more and more fun. Hudson loved the Budafest parade and this year he got to ride some rides with cousin Noah and had a wonderful time. They were amazed at the sight of Santa even though Hudson didn't want to sit on his lap. Their sweet stunned faces when Santa drove by was priceless. He is a rock star to them. So fun! I love this time of year and making so many fun memories with my family and angel. He truly is the best.

Thanksgiving 2014

Once again..I'm behind. Oy :)

Thanksgiving was fun :). We had it our house again (which we plan to forever more I'm sure) and I LOVE it. We woke up to yummy smelling turkey (not burning grease like the previous year - mama and dada learned from that mistake). Went down to check on it and it was juicy and falling off the bone. PERFECT!

Uncle Robert stopped by for a quick visit and Hudson and I watched a tiny bit of the Thanksgiving Parade. Call me silly but I didn't realize there was so much Broadway stuff on it. The first song was cute because Hudson was trying to dance like the people on the tv. He's a dancer for sure. He quickly lost interest so I tried to fast forward to the bands (my favorite part) and he played in the living room while it was on in the background.

The whole family (minus a few) got together and ate until we were going to explode. We seriously always make too much food. But that's what leftovers are for :)

We ended the night with our traditional viewing of Elf while Karl was working the UT game.

Another one of our traditions is Christmas in Boerne. We got out there early and on the way Hudson kept saying how tired he was. He never fell asleep for a nap and I knew it was recipe for disaster. We got there and he had a great time with cousin Noah riding the ponies, petting the animals and playing in the fake snow. Soon after when the rest of the family showed up bubba started to get grouchy. He was exhausted. He passed out at 7! that's too early for this boy LOL. He slept on pawpaw for another hour until we got the kettle cooked popcorn and were ready to take off. Hudson woke up before we got back to the car to head home. He was awake the whole way home. Luckily he went right to bed with me. I'm glad we got there early to have bubba enjoy the kiddy festivities. That's the best part of the whole event :).