January fun

We have been enjoying a low key, rather warm (for KS anyway) January. Here are a few photos from the month so far. 

Jack continues his show obsession and loved wearing Dana's boots!

Dana and Pa came for a weakend to visit and the boys had their first trip to Dunkin Doughnuts. We nearly had a big boy meltdown after they were out of sprinkle doughnuts and Hudson started planning on how we could just go to another store to get one. Luckily by the time we ate, they had made another tray. 

Jack was in heaven and ate way more than his share. 

Carpooling.

Jack carrying his favorite "guys" of the week including Mickey, Clifford and "Chief".

Hudson playing with his Cars.

Where Jack insisted on eating his oatmeal one day.

Watching a movie

At Gage's 5th birthday. It was a tumbling party and Hudson had so much fun. We also went to an open gym at a gymnastics center and Hudson has been asking to take some classes so we might look into that.

Jack painting at parents as teacher playgroup. We also started Kindermusik classes again which he loves.

The boys so badly want to sleep together but despite many different attempts no one seems to be able to get to sleep. The night before last we tried Jack in the toddler bed which sits at the foot of Hudson's bed. Hudson then decided he needed to sleep at the bottom of his bed by Jack. Then Jack would climb up to be by Hudson. Needless to say, this failed. So the next night we try them both in Hudson's bed. They both lay down but then Jack whispered over and over to Hudson, "doggies are sleeping" (we have my mom's dogs at the house this week). Hudson would say "yes they are". Well Jack did this OVER and OVER again and finally Hudson told him, "Yes they are so Jack, only tell me things I don't know, OK?". So this attempt didn't work either. It was so darn cute to hear their little conversations though and at one point they even cuddled with their arms around each other. Maybe someday they can be roomies...

Hudson is showing a big interest in reading and doing pretty well reading some beginning reader books. He is a really quick memorizer though so often times we have to make sure he is reading the words and not just repeating them. He has several pretty long books memorized like his two favorite Cars books. He also LOVES the play the Wii that we got for Christmas and is picking up those video gaming skills quickly. He gets rewarded with Wii time for good behavior so this comes in very handy if we need him to do something!

Jack's vocabulary has taken off recently and he continues to repeat everything he hears. His favorite songs he is heard singing around the house are the ABC's, Twinkle Twinkle, Wheels on the Bus, Frosty the Snowman and Jingle Bells. His favorite movies are Oliver and Company and Fox and the Hound. The boys got these for Christmas and even have named a few plush animals after characters in the movie.