An ELMO celebration

What a fun day Hudson had on his birthday Saturday. We had an Elmo party at the house and were blessed to have so many friends and family here to celebrate. Aunt Jane and Uncle Pete and Trey, Ethan, and Whitney came from Colorado and Great Grandma made it all the way from Michigan. Aunt Sam, Nana and Pa came from St Louis and we also celebrated with many of Hudson's little friends ranging in age from three weeks to almost three years.

Nana made ALL of these cupcakes for the birthday boy!

Nana, Hudson and Adeline

Eating an Elmo cake sent from Aunt Liz along with many fun Elmo balloons. They were a big hit.

I'm almost TWO!!!

the cousins visit KC

We have had lots of fun the past few weeks as we got a sneak peak at some Spring weather. We had some special visitors in last weekend who came to KC to see the Professional Bull riding show. Uncle Nick, Aunt Liz and cousins Brandon and Annika came to visit. Hudson had so much fun playing with them.

Hudson being the "wizard" at the Wizard of Oz display at Crown Center

Hugging Gage at the park

Going down the slide with Gage. Hudson had so much fun playing with Gage at the park and when Gage would run another direction Hudson would hollar out "Gage" and slap his had on his leg....I guess he has been observing us call for our dog Tanner!

Hudson got a special Elmo balloon at Crown Center

At the zoo with daddy watching the sea lions

Eating lunch at Crayola Cafe at Crown Center

On a hippo at the zoo

Playing at Crown Center

Riding the Royals horse on the carousel at the zoo

This weekend we have more special visitors coming for a very special Elmo birthday party! Hudson turns TWO on Saturday!

Pools and Puppies....

We haven't posted in a while so hopefully these pictures will make up for lost time! Crusin' in the now famous coupe car with passenger Elmo. He doesn't leave without mom's keys and purse of course to go to the store. He also attempted to "gas" this car by stripping naked and peeing in the gas tank....not kidding. So this car got a car wash outside.
We had a great time celebrating our friend Ben's first birthday! Hudson was quite a fish and has NO fear of the pool.

His new favorite thing to steal out of the fridge by pushing a chair over....yum....butter.

Reading to Tanner that he calls "teece" for some reason. These two are buddies. Hudson loves to hide her balls around the house for her to find and just cracks himself up when she finds them. He cried to take her in the car the other day, so we did but the plan quickly backfired when he was so worried about her when we had to leave her in the car while we went inside Target.

A spring like winter day

Lunch outside with Gage!

Yogurt eaten with fingers....notice how clean the spoon is?

Painting with Gage. Gage loved to say "perfect" after each paint stroke!

Yummy strawberries.....

Lunch with Benjamin

His favorite baby....Mason

Nana's birthday in St Louis

We spent a fun long weekend in St Louis while the house had lots of painting done. Here is an after picture of the cabinets after being glazed
ignore the mess:)

the staircase painted

We had one day with really nice weather so we spent the morning at the park

Sharing spaghetti at a great restaurant on the Hill for Nana's birthday

Getting a haircut by Nana

With "Pa" at an arcade

With Nana, Tanner and his favorite new word "Chloe" in the matching PJ's that Hudson insists on wearing to bed every night

His FAVORITE "car" at the arcade that he rode over and over again. He keeps making this "o" with his mouth to keep himself from smiling

With Aunt Dana "after" the bang hair-do

With "Pa" at the arcade.....trying to escape back to ride the car again

yummmmm

Let it snow.....

We have had a pretty cold January here in KC but despite the freezing temps we had to get outside for a bit and play in the snow. He was not a fan of the snow being on his boots which he loves.

We have been playing with lots of change lately. His girlfriend Ainsley got him a piggy bank for Xmas and he will sit at his banks for a long time playing with the change.

For some reason he thought it would be more fun to eat yogurt with his hand:)

It is hard to get a picture without him immediatly squinting his eyes and putting on his "cheese" face. He loves his new little cars and people he got for Christmas.