COUSINS!!

We got a call Tuesday morning letting us know that the Floridians (jeremy's family - Jamie's brother) would be in Iowa on Wednesday till next Tuesday! They were supposed to be coming in late July but some work conflicts came up and they just decided to hop in the car and drive up this week! So we changed all of our plans for the week - my sisters and gammy took over my garage sale and we headed up to Iowa to see them. We haven't seen them for almost a year. Hudson was just barely walking - as in a few steps across the living room - the last time they were here! So he has changed A LOT since they last saw him. Bryce, Kaedyn and Mia have all grown up in the last year too. We are having lots of fun hanging out at Papa and Binga's playing. Bryce still doesn't know my name, even though we have been here for 3 days now. Jamie got here last night and Bryce immediately knew who he was!

We took some pics last night of all the kids together because Jenni's family had to leave this morning for an already planned trip to Colorado to see Wally's family. Jamie took the day off Monday and Jeremy is flying in this evening so we'll spend a few more days together before heading home.

fun with Uncle Jamie

We babysat our niece and nephew last night while their mom and dad went out to dinner for their anniversary! Anna is almost 4 and Jacob is almost 22 months. Our friend Doug and his daughter Bayley - she's 3 - came over to play as well. The whole evening was crazy and I think I might as well get used to it because Jamie was the big instigator of it all so I know when Hudson get's big enough this is what our house will be like all the time. Hopefully not quite so much high pitched squealing though!



My Montage 6/15/09

Anna, Hudson and Bayley taking a bath. Jacob wasn't interested in bathtime so he got out pretty quick but Hudson liked taking a bath with the girls. That's his first time to take a bath with other kids and the girls were pretty entertaining. Anna called Bayley" "Belly" all night cause she couldn't pronounce it right and Bayley called Anna "Hannah" all night.

Hudson meets Callista

So Hudson didn't get to meet Callista on Sunday at the hospital because he was sick. (Yes, AGAIN. He ran a fever for 3 days but had no other symptoms so we were sure he was finally teething. But then Monday night he broke out in a rash all over his body. At first we thought he was allergic to soy because we had just given him tofu for the first time the day before but it turns out that he had the exact symptoms of roseola - it's a cold virus that just manifests itself differently than the sneezing, coughing kind. So since he had a fever on Sunday we didn't take him up to the hospital, which turned out to be a good decision on our part since he was actually contagious, not teething.)
So he finally got to go meet his first cousin today. And he LOVED her! I didn't think he would even really notice her but he was pretty excited about her. Not so sure when she cried a little bit but as long as she was quite he thought she was pretty great!

This was actually a ribbon off of a present but since she has so much hair we thought she needed a bow!

Callista Jane

Congratulations to my brother and his wife (Chase and Annie) on the birth of their daughter - Callista Jane! She was born at 1:58 this morning - weighed in at 7 lbs, 19 inches long and I'm told has more hair already than Hudson has now! Going to see her in a few hours then I'll post some pics - can't wait! My sister called at 3:30 this morning to tell me and I've hardly slept since! Of course, some of that has to do with the fact that Hudson didn't sleep well either.... maybe he is just excited to meet his new cousin!

cousins

Hudson finally got to meet his cousins from Florida last night. They are here for the holidays and stayed at our house last night and are spending most of the day with us today. Hudson has been enthralled just watching them play - definitely keeping him stimulated!

Kaedyn is going nuts because both Athena and Hudson are taking naps right now and she doesn't have anyone to play with. She wore Athena out playing fetch with her this morning, so she's hiding in my room and Hudson is down for a nap, but he's still crying after 1.5 hours. She keeps asking if he can get up to play...she finally just said "Hudson wants to get up to play but he can't cause he has to take his whole nap." I hope he takes a nap at some point so he'll be in a good mood for Christmas at my parent's house tonight!

Kaedyn playing banker in the playroom downstairs.

Mia and Kaedyn reading Hudson a book.

Bryce jumping on the bed - and almost on Hudson's head a few times!