Road Trip

Since it was spring break we took a little road trip to KC with my family. My Mom and Dad and sister Christin and Hudson and I drove up to KC Thursday and spent 2.5 days shopping! It was a lot of fun - for the girls anyway. Dad just kept looking for a TV to watch the basketball games but he didn't have a lot of luck and Hudson was just along for the ride, he didn't really care what we were doing.



Hudson did really well on the trip. He woke up a lot more than usual at night but I think that is probably to be expected being in a strange place and since we were all in the same room. Well, Christin slept on the floor in the bathroom cause she couldn't take mom and dad's snoring but I didn't think it was that bad! :)



Hudson rode the carousel at the Oak Park mall - which he enjoyed, but I think he had just as much fun standing on the outside and watching as he did riding. Actually, now that I think about it, I think he liked watching it better than riding. I had a hard time keeping him on top of the horse!

He threw a fit when we took him down off the luggage cart. He played up there the whole time we were packing up.

Stretching his arms and legs at the store. This table had a jewelry display on top of it and he kept shaking the entire table. I was worried he was going to knock all the jewelry off!

Hudson was enthralled with watching Christin do her makeup in the mornings.

Helping Christin pick out a few new tops.

Watching the carousel.

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!

road trip

We went to Great Bend yesterday for Christin's basketball game. We left at 3:00 so I thought Hudson would fall asleep and maybe take a nap the whole way (it's about a 2 hour drive) or at least most of the way. Didn't happen. He fell asleep before we left town but was awake in 20 minutes. So we stopped in Hutch and I fed/changed him then we got back on the road. And he cried and cried. So we stopped outside of Sterling and I tried to feed him again. This time he was happier when we put him back in his seat and I was singing and talking to him and he was happy and getting sleepy. Then we had to pull over and talk to a not-so-nice policeman who gave us a speeding ticket and that made Hudson very unhappy. He cried the rest of the way to Great Bend. And of course fell asleep as we were pulling into the parking lot of the college for the game!
So the game was really loud and woke him up and he wasn't happy during the game, but wasn't too upset either. He doesn't like the loudness at the games (They had a band and 28 cheerleaders so it was pretty loud in there.). Put him back in his carseat though and the crying began again. He cried the whole way over to Jamie's cousin's house, but again was okay once he got out of his seat! So we hung out there and had dinner and Hudson and his cousin Daniel got to play together. Then he fell asleep pretty quick when I nursed him so we thought let's get on the road so he'll sleep the whole way home. Wishful thinking. He woke up while we were putting him in his carseat and this time cried for 30 more minutes before finally falling asleep and sleeping the rest of the way home!

However we did have a good time at Scott and Amy's home and Hudson and Daniel got to play together. Daniel is crawling everywhere and I think Hudson took some notes.... We set them down on the floor to play together and Amy warned to be careful cause Daniel can be kind of agressive, but it was Hudson who kept reaching over and grabbing Daniel's face and clothes! But they played together really well. We'll see them at Thanksgiving next week so that should be fun to have more time for them to play - plus there will be a few other cousins around too!