And a few months later...

Oops! Where does the time go? At least once a week or so I think to myself "I really should update my blog", and then Hudson wakes up, or I have a big Vintage Flower Farm order, or I need to sweep and dust, or I finally have 10 minutes to shower, and then I'm out of blogging time. So, the last time I posted we were playing in the snow, and today we played in the pool because it was 90 degrees. I guess I missed a lot of things in there! I don't want to forget to post about our trip to Hilton Head! It's nice to have friends in high places ;) I'm very lucky to have gotten to know Caryn, a girl I met in one of my sociology classes at IUPUI. She has a daughter that's Hudson's age, and they LOVE to play together. What's even more lucky is that we love to play together too! She invited Hudson and I to go to Hilton Head with her and her daughter, and stay in her mother-in-law's condo for the week. I was hesitant to go because it made me nervous thinking about going that far in the car with 2 toddlers, and I wasn't sure how Hudson would be away from home...if he would sleep okay, if I would be okay without Danny's help for an entire week...but it went WONDERFUL. Hudson didn't cry one time through the entire 14 hour car ride! He slept like a champ the entire week also. We had such a great time, I'm so glad I decided to go! Here's a few of my favorite pictures:

This was on a horse farm/petting zoo...it was so cute and the kids loved it!

This was Hudson's first trip to the ocean! He loved it...he ran as fast as we could toward it as soon as we got him out of the wagon. He would just stand in it and watch it for hours if he could!

Our last day...we decided to go to the beach before we left, even though it left the kids covered in sand for the ride. Totally worth it! It's one of my favorite memories with Hudson to date!

He was so interested in this man's fishing poles!

So, that was at the end of April. Here he is for St. Patrick's Day drinking some green milk:

The night before St. Patrick's Day we went to one of my oldest friend's weddings and had a GREAT time! Here's us from that:

Then we had Easter...we went to brunch with Mom and Dean and then back to their house to look through our Easter Baskets and fight for candy of course. Hudson got his own room to find eggs in so we didn't trample him while he was looking for them.

Here's a few other cute pics of him while we were waiting for warmer weather...

We have put our memberships to the zoo and Conner Prairie to good use this year!

Maddie and Hudson! Little cuties.

We got to plant our own row of Kale at Conner Prairie!

The. Cutest. "Magazine Dream" we called this.

  We decided to take Hudson to the Indy 500 track to see the cars before the race, and it was a great impulsive decision! Another of my favorite memories with him. I always imagined doing princess things when I thought of having kids...but it is amazing how much fun I have doing boy things!! I can't imagine anything better.

We went with Dean to the Indy 500 parade, and Hudson had so much fun at that too!

We went to Saugatuck and Holland again this year, about a  month ago! We had such a wonderful time. I look forward to going back every year! It's so nice to have a good solid 5 days for us all to spend together without any distractions. Here's a few of my favorite pics from that trip:

He's actually pooping here. He grabs his hair EVERY time he poops. Not sure what that's about...

He's now saying "What is it?" ALL DAY. He points at everything (mostly things he actually knows what they are) and asks what they are at least 80 times a day. He's doing so good with comprehending things...he is amazing at his ipad games, and can put all the letters in the places they go on his word games...he can point out animals, colors, and shapes when you ask him what they are. He's still obsessed with trucks and wakes up talking about them from his sleep, and talks about them  until he goes back to sleep. He's just so much fun! I love spending time with him, he's my best little friend. Here's his monthly pictures since I've posted last:

That's a lot of months! I'm really going to try to get better this time. Really.

Winter Updates

I need to be better about updating this! Now that I'm not doing monthly updates I don't remember as well to post all of Hudson's new developments! He is saying "Truck" now and "Uh Oh!" which is soooooooo cute! They are his first words that he is using correctly and on his own. So I think we will say that "Truck" is his real first word. I'm glad he's finally saying something...I was beginning to worry a little. He LOVES the animals more than ever, and chases them around and lays his head on them. Like this:
 
That's my son! If I'm not paying attention to him and he wants to play he pulls all his toys over to me and throws them at me. He runs around ALL the time and has a crazy amount of energy. Luckily he's still a good sleeper (for the most part...he woke up from 12-2 last night). But that was a fluke...let's hope. He usually sleeps 7-7:30 and naps from around 12-2:30 or so. Some days more, some days less. But I'm finding from talking to other friends that I'm lucky he sleeps that long! He really loves being around other kids and laughs and follows them around when he sees them. He is a friendly little guy, especially for being home with me all day and not always out and around other people! We had a fun Valentine's Day this year at the zoo. It was pretty warm weather for this time of year (in the 50s), so we took Hudson to the zoo in the morning and then after his nap he went to Mom and Dean's and we went to Ruth's Chris! Yum. Great dinner! Here's his Valentine's Day card this year:

 We had a fun photoshoot with some of our friend's! Here's a few more of my favorites:

Adorable! Here's the rest of his monthly photos so far:

 

 I can't believe he's almost 18 months. He has really grown up in the last few weeks. He looks so much bigger and is saying more things and understanding more and more every day. It's fun but so sad at the same time. And I can't imagine having another one right now even though I had hoped on being pregnant by now when I first had him. I just feel like he needs me so much still and I would be taking away so much attention from him...hoping I change my mind soon so I can give him a brother or sister that's not too far apart in age of him! Katie had her baby a few weeks ago and she is SO beautiful and perfect!! I love her so much. I can't wait until Katie is ready for visitors and we can go play with her. I took some pictures of my beautiful niece Harper Mae last week. Here are a few:
Love her! And so excited for our future of Disney Princess Parties. I'm sure there are a million other things that I'm forgetting, but Hudson is about up from his nap and I need to sweep before he's up! I'll leave you with a few of my favorite photos of him from the last month or so:


And a few from our snow days!
 
We are ready for vacation and warm weather!!