Such a big boy!

Hudson is such a little man these days.....where has my baby gone??

He loved playing with sissy in the ball pit....

He loved flapping his arms around and hitting all the balls around as fast as he could....here he is in action.....

Hudson loves playing in the playroom and can often be found playing in there alone.....it's so funny to keep checking on him and see this little person just making his way around the room acting like he's done this forever.  Here he is pulling up and watching some Yo Gabba Gabba at the same time.  That show drives me crazy and I often change the channel when it  is on....but he loves it and will often watch is several minutes if he's not interrupted.

Another one of his favorite things is bothering his sister.  He's usually grabbing her markers if she's coloring or wanting whatever she's doing....most of the time she's very tolerant of him.....but other times she's not really in the mood.  :)

 I don't usually pin him in unless I'm sweeping or mopping the kitchen floor......but as you can tell he's not really a fan....he needs to have access to Mommy....  :) 

Playing kitchen....such a cutie.....

Ozarks!....updated...

We had a great time at the lake for our annual family vaca!  It was HOT....but each morning we still managed to get out for several rounds of tubing and skiing.  Riley loves tubing and really liked the trainer ski....he tried a few attempts at real skiing and didn't get up.  But he gave it a great shot this year...he was very close to getting up.  Kinley loved tubing and skiing as usual.  She had to go tubing alone...like Riley.....but Daddy was on the other tube right next to her.  She is still fearless....I don't think this girl will ever outgrow it!  :-)  Hudson was a great little boater.  It was hot, but there was always a good breeze blowing so he was very happy to just crawl around in the boat in the shade.  He still loved his occasional dips in the lake too.  I just realized I didn't take any pictures in the condo.....I must have been too busy enjoying the a/c and relaxing once we were indoors.

Hudson has his first taste of spaghetti at one of our favorite places at the lake....Dominico's.  He was acting so crazy that night....I'm not sure if he was super tired since we were eating pretty late that night or if he just really loved the spaghetti....here was one of his many funny faces he was making.  We were all dying laughing at him.....I think he was enjoying the attention a little too much!  :) 

~10 months~

You are 10 months old baby boy!  And such a little ham!  :)  You're favorite thing to do right now is pull up and cruise along everything.  You have also discovered the stairs....we had no idea you were anywhere close to figuring them out until Kinley and I were upstairs at bath time....you must have really wanted to be up there because Kinley started screaming and I came running to find you halfway up the stairs!!  Yikes!  I have a feeling you will be walking by your first birthday.  You love to let go of whatever you're holding on to and just stand there and balance and then plop on your little bottom....and then you just giggle and do it again.  You always want to be with your brother and sister wherever they are....which wasn't a problem in the Ozarks when their room was on the same level.....now you just sit in the foyer and whine to go upstairs.

You are wearing 12 and 18 months clothes and nearly out growing the 12 months.  You are still in size 4 diaper.  We are getting through our last little bit of baby food, but have moved you mainly to table food.  You have 6 teeth so we might as well.  :)  You are kind of a picky eater and have to be in the mood for whatever I give you.  You have had waffles, green beans, blueberries, noodles, graham crackers, crackers, pears, cantaloupe, pizza, chicken nuggets and cinnamon sugar toast to name a few.  Your favorites are still your yogurt bites.....if I put them on a plate with some puffs and other stuff you will pick out all the yogurt bites and then whine and swipe everything else off to the ground.  We have tried a sippy cup several times...you will drink from it a little but mainly love to chew on it.  You have about four bottles a day and still have 2 tbs. of cereal in your bottle before bed.  

You are such a serious little guy.....whenever we go out to eat or are around other people you stare at everything and just take it all in.  You will hardly ever give anyone a smile besides Mommy, Daddy or brother and sister.  It is soooo hard to get you to smile for pictures.....luckily Riley was next to me acting wacky so you were just a barrel of laughs.....we'll need to remember to have him along for our next photo session.  :)    

Attempt....

So I attempted to take some pictures of the little man by myself today.....uh yeah.....that's next to impossible.  Thank goodness I had this box to "trap" him in.....  :) 

Great Grandma Ginny's 92nd Birthday!

We headed down to Quincy to help Great Grandma Ginny celebrate her 92nd Birthday....here is Grandma with the kiddos. 

State Farm Park

Kinley has been dying to go to State Farm Park this summer.  We pass it every day on our way into town and I always explain to her that we can't go without Grandpa....so he can let us in.  We finally found a day that worked for all of us and boy did the kids have fun.  They have things for all ages and Hudson LOVED the zero depth part of the pool....he was crawling and splashing all over the place.  Kinley has asked to go there again nearly every day since.  Uncle Blake, Grandma and Grandpa all joined us....what a fun way to spend the evening! 

Silly boy!