New Foods, New Room and New Age

Angela here!  Hope everyone is having a great week.  We've had a few changes in our household the past couple weeks.  Miss Adley has advanced her diet; this is her second week on pureed foods!  At just past 5 months old, she has already had sweet potatoes, banana, avocado, corn, mango and blueberries.  She is following in her brother's footsteps and enjoying the bananas the best.  (Hudson had three bananas himself just on Saturday - he can't get enough!).  And she's only eating a couple tablespoons at a time, but Adley has already cut out a bottle throughout the day and is going longer stretches between feeds.  And her spit up seems to be resolving so that is an extra bonus for me and the laundry.  Her sleep routine still varies, so we're hoping she'll start to sleep through the night as she continues to eat more solids.

Notice Hudson in the background eating his veggie dog.  He continues to demonstrate to Adley the proper way to eat and hold a spoon, all while coaching her and saying: "Put food in your belly Addie.  Food goes down!"  And the "proper" way to eat includes an open mouth and food dispersed all over the counter and in every crevasse of his body and clothing.  Such a good big bro.

And a video to share...Adley's first experience with food - sweet potatoes.  Her facial expressions have since gotten better.  And now she likes to hold the spoon instead of knock it out of our hands.  This is what I call progress...

https://youtu.be/rpRmCkCTQXc

 Another change, this is Hudson's second week in his new classroom.  Early Preschool for my big boy!  He now has to eat in the cafeteria with all the school kids and takes a nap later in the day.  His class is down the left hall of the school, which Hudson says is where the big kids go to "get their learn on."  It's more structured than his previous classroom and he seems to be adjusting well.  His favorite part is art time....clearly he is the next Monet...

We also celebrated Chris' birthday this week.  He continues to tell everyone he is 24 and "in his prime."  I hate to out the birthday boy, but the poor guy falls asleep by 10 pm and gets heartburn after one adult beverage.  We are not party animals by any means.  But Hudson partied hard for us and decorated a card for his daddy and then distributed presents.  We started off with a nice bottle of whiskey and then he modeled Sleep Phones.  If anyone likes to go to bed with headphones on, this is the coolest invention yet.  Flat earbuds woven into a cotton headband, genius!

Next up was cookie-making time for daddy's birthday.  Hudson could not have been more excited.  Seeing icing and sprinkles makes the boy go into a whirlwind of emotion and spunk. 

And we ended with a sugar-high.  Perfect birthday evening.  Now we're just trying to keep everyone healthy through the cold and flu season.  As Chris says, we're all "on the verge!"

Cleveland and Cousins

Angela here!  Hope everyone has had a great start to the new year!  Our New Years Eve was mellow and low key, as we headed to Cleveland the next day to see the Wilson crew.  Hudson was so so excited to see his cousins, mainly Hannah, let's be honest.  Hudson ADORES Hannah!  Whatever Hannah is doing is obviously cool and exciting.  He followed her around like a little puppy and it was adorable to watch.  Hannah graciously accepted the task of being in charge of the little kids.  She kept the boys in line and also took sweet care of baby Adley.

We had our third round of Christmas and the kiddos got spoiled again.  Hudson and cousin Nate got T-Rex's that came with a jeep that launched rockets and carried the dino around.  Hudson continues to make his dinosaur eat breakfast with him every morning.

The next day we woke up and headed to the Cleveland Museum of National History.  There was a special dinosaur exhibit that fit in appropriately with the new toys the boys received.  Hudson enjoyed it so much that he actually skipped a nap that day...his first skip ever!  He had a slight meltdown around 3 pm, but Hannah quickly perked him up for the rest of the day.

                                                   

             

When Hudson isn't having a 2 year old toddler meltdown, he is the sweetest little boy ever.  He gives endless hugs and kisses and he never forgets to ask: " Is mama ok?"  And he always reminds me that: "Daddy be loud."  One night this week, Chris was coming home late and Hud was concerned.  He didn't want his daddy to miss out on anything.  So we had to take pictures of him enjoying his bubble bath... 

And every night we have to tuck all his animals in bed...Lambie, Cowie, Hooter, George, Sofie, Devin, Mac, Trooper and D-Boy.  And yes, Chris "helped" him name them all.

And Miss Adley is about to hit the 5 month mark!  She's giggling all the time and has this cute belly laugh that only comes out when Hudson is being a goof-ball.  She's more alert and she loves touching the face of whoever is holding her.  Below are pictures of her in my baby outfits when I was little.  Wow have clothes changed in the past few decades!  The jumper is hand-knitted and there were a ton a buttons and drawstrings dangling everywhere.  It took forever to put it on her, but she did look cute!

And she had to rock a Cincinnati Bengals outfit this weekend as well.  Yes, we're all still die-hard New England Patriot fans, but there's nothing wrong with a girl needing to have multiple outfit changes during football season.

We also celebrated cousin Anderson's 4th Birthday!  It was a superhero party so all the kids got to dress up and wear costumes.  The boys had no problem flexing their muscles, running around like madmen and having a blast.  Albeit exhausting, it was cute to watch.

Claire and Adley are always on a mission to find the best seat in the house, and it always happens to be Lolly's lap.

Hope everyone has a great week!