oranges

Hudson loves to eat oranges! As you can see... Now he drops all his food on the floor instead of eating it, so it's already not as cute as it was last week!

And yes, Zeus ate all the oranges off the floor!

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!

future quarterback??

Hudson has started working on his throwing arm....by throwing all his toys - which I think is cute now but wait till he does it when he's throwing a fit, right? :)

Callista pictures

Here she is - beautiful little girl. I can't believe Hudson was ever that tiny - they grow so quick! Callista and Mom are doing well and ready to go home. She has looonng fingers and fingernails (I'm jealous!) and a beautiful little face. She has lots of dark hair too!

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!

trip to the zoo

It was beautiful here yesterday - 60 degrees! - so we went to the zoo. Most of the animals were still pretty sleepy - it is winter after all, guess they're in hibernation mode - but a few of them were up and active. Hudson had a great time although I don't think he really saw very many of the animals since they were mostly just laying out in the sunshine and not moving around.

He did see the giraffes. They came right over to us and looked at us for a while so I know he could see them. And the peacocks just wander around the zoo and he noticed them too. I am pretty sure he saw the gorillas and elephants too but his absolute favorite was....the Canadian Geese. Yeah, the same ones we see in our own backyard. Go figure! Some of the geese were in a fight - I think a male was being a little territorial - so it was causing quite a ruckus so that got his attention!

We were there almost 2 hours and Hudson was asleep before we even got to the gift shop on our way out...and then he slept for 2 hours!! So it really wore him out!

Trying to get him to look at the animals but he was looking everywhere else instead!

Ummm....Mom...not too sure about this guy!!

I guess he's okay!! But hurry!

This was where he saw the geese fighting - the highlight of the day!

Couldn't get Hudson to look at me but Jamie definitely has the model pose going on!

Giddy up!!

By the waterfall in the jungle. Hudson liked the jungle quite a bit - lots of colors, birds and fish - and the waterfall of course!

tongue

Hudson has discovered his tongue this last week and unless he's sleeping it's always sticking out. It's too cute! And he's getting better and better about tummy time. Now he'll spend 5-10 minutes playing before he gets mad and rolls over. He scoots around in a circle and yesterday I think he even scooted backward a little - but it might have just been wishful thinking on my part!