Hudson practicing being a big brother!

In case you haven't heard, Hudson will be a big brother around Halloween! He is very excited as he loves babies and points them out everywhere we go. We only hope he won't mind one living with us!

Spring is here!

Nana came and spent 5 days with me while Dada had to go to Houston for work. She introduced me to worms.....ewwww!
And I helped her plant flowers

And she gave me my first sewing lesson.


Letting my toys enjoy the slide as well

Fixing the ladder

Hudson loves his new swing set that Pa and Dada put up. He "makes sure" they didn't miss any screws by taking random forks and other items from the kitchen to "work" on it.

I love to take toys up to the playhouse to play

Picking dandelions in the yard

my new bubble shooter - BIG, cheap entertainment for a 2 year old

I still love my choo-choo and car set

Easter weekend with "Pa"

Pa came up this Easter weekend to help John assemble a swing set. It is "almost" up - one more weekday and we should have the swings and slide up. Now we know why the store wanted to charge $800 for installation! It came in 7 huge boxes and weighed 1000 lbs!

Hudson is a HUGE fan on Mexican food and has discovered that you can get the cheese dip and guacamole in your mouth faster when you use a spoon!

The box is almost as fun as the swingset!

Checking out "Pa's" new ride

the aunt's visit and Grey's birthday party

This past weekend during a spring snow storm, we attended Hudson's friend, Grey's second birthday party at Pump It Up.
Look at the darling sock monkey cake that Grey's mom MADE!

Hudson had a blast going down the slides with daddy and playing in the bounce houses. As soon as he got off the slide he would run to the back to climb it again!

We also had two special visitors, aunt Dana and aunt Sam who came to visit over spring break. This was during a little girl's shopping trip that dad was obviously not on!

Hudson's shopping days are currently on hold as he had decided he does not like to shop. Last night after dinner we took a family trip to Target to pick up just a few groceries and somehow while John and I were both in the produce section, Hudson escaped and found the doughnut display. After touching at least one, we gave him one and he proceeded to eat the whole thing (he has never even had one before). By the time we checked out, we had to pay for a missing doughnut, empty string cheese wrapper, and empty raisen box. I am not sure where he puts all this food as this was after dinner!!!

Playing with stickers on the new shelves Nana made for his playroom Don't worry, Nana, they don't take the paint off! Hudson had so much fun with his aunts and would drag both of them by their fingers to go with him wherever he wanted to go. Hudson is talking up a storm now. Before we had worried about him not talking too much and now it seems like it won't stop. He is still addicted to music and walks around most of the day rolling his arms saying "bus" to play "wheels on the bus" or "ball" for "take me out to the ball game".

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!