It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas & 17 months

This is going to be a long blog because it may be the only one this week. Sorry.

Hudson will be 17 months old Monday!!! I am going to do a quick wrap up on some new milestones this month.

Words and Phrases: "dank you", He squeals and says "Sissy" or "dog" whenever he sees Bailey or any other dog. He loves to say "tickle, tickle" and tickle your skin. Milk, juice and cookie are favorite words. He is starting to really repeat words if you sit with him and point at pictures and books. The word "Mama" gets said about 1,000 times a day. Sometimes it seems for no reason at all. When we change his diaper he says "pee, pee." He loves his shoes and always wants to wear them. He enjoys pointing at EVERYTHING so you can tell him what it is. He babbles non stop. I often wonder what he is saying. I would love to go inside his little mind. He is so, so curious.

This month has also brought about many, many challenges with tantrums. I know that Hudson is just expressing what he wants and likes but sometimes throwing every piece of dog food out of the canister is not an option. And throwing food in public is not pretty. If anyone has any good suggestions on how to deal with this, I would love to hear your thoughts.



Yesterday, Christmas hit Raleigh. We started off the morning with breakfast and the Christmas parade with Aunt Elizabeth, Uncle Jason and Lucy.


I was so worried how Hudson would behave since we had to stand in a tight spot and he could not run around, but he lasted almost an hour and a half. We left before Santa but were able to watch the end of the parade from our house. Hudson loved the dogs, horses and marching bands.






We spent the afternoon and early evening at North Hills with my dad and his family. They had the tree lighting, fake snow falling, snowmen and reindeer walking around, the Sandbox band, a train ride, horse and carriage and of course Santa. What I thought was going to be a one hour event turned into 3 hours of fun.






I am definitely in the Christmas spirit which may explain why I keep getting in trouble when my husband sees all the packages that keep arriving at our house.

On another BRIGHT note... my Woobs got engaged Saturday! I am beyond thrilled! I was jumping around all night. I (and Liz) have been waiting for this for a long time. Haha. Let the fun begin.