Meet my friends

Here is my girlfriend Ainsley. Well she doesn't really want to be my girlfriend. She turns her shoulder at me when I try to kiss her, but I think she is just playing hard to get.
Luckily, Clayton likes my kisses!

This is Gage. He is a year old! He is teaching me how to walk.
This is my new bear outfit my Nana bought me. I am outgrowing all of my clothes! I guess that is what happens when you eat a whole avocado each day.

Baby it's COLD outside

We have been staying busy indoors with the cold temps outside. We continue a couple of playgroups this year and also started Kindermusik with our friends Ainsley and Benjamin. The kids LOVE it and act like little kindergartners with their facination with the teacher! The first class, Hudson mainly focused on stealing other kid's binkies, and also tried to make out with a few other friends, but this last class behaved a little better! He especially loves the drum the teacher has. He continues to practice kissing and greets dad each day with a big smooch and says "aaahhhh".

He continues to out eat us for meals and especially loves when he gets to eat off our plates after his meal is through. He has some new favorites as demonstrated in some of the pictures - hummus, meatloaf, veggie burgers and goldfish crackers. He even had a bean burrito and a quesadilla last week. He continues to love meal time and starts nodding his head for "more" while he has a huge mouthful! He kicks his legs and squeals when he sees more food coming in his excitement. You would swear we never feed him!

His favorite toy continues to be his wooden stacker. He is really good and getting the rings on there but gets really mad when his ball and other toys don't fit! So when that doesn't work, he tries to open one of the dog's mouths to put the ball in there!

He also has discovered cabinets! He loves to open and close them. He is starting to balance pretty well standing and is good at picking things off the ground while standing so walking is getting close.....yikes! He continues to be a ball of fun and learns something new to amaze us each day. We can't believe how much he understands. In just a couple of months we will be celebrating his first birthday!

new tricks

We have had a great week here. We all celebrated New Years Eve/John's birthday down at the Lake with our friends the Koons' and Abplanalp's. Hudson got spoiled with more Christmas presents!

He has learned some new tricks this week that he is proud of. He loves to try to drink water out of the bathtub but that usually doesn't go so well. He also enjoys eating cheerios off of his tray with no hands. He also loves to shake his head up and down when he wants something - so much for the "more" sign....I think I have given up! He is also improving his ball throwing skills which is getting him a great deal of attention from the dogs. He cracks up when they retrieve it and bring it back to him.