The new phase for Hudson has been "the tantrum"...Why? I really feel so bad when he gets this frustrated, but I've told myself it is just a phase...Right? We are working on communication. Hudson has his own language--we just haven't deciphered it yet. I wish with all my heart I knew what he was saying. Sometimes he'll start into a long conversation only to end with a full-on-belly chuckle. I love him.
This is the many faces to a tantrum---
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| Face 1: Happy, adorable even hunk-ish right? Nothing could go wrong kind of look. |
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| Face 2: This is the fence line: the deciding face, "Do I stay happy or throw my back out and start wailing?" |
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| Face 3: "Just try and stop me from being totally put out". I can't help but still love his sad face! This face also comes with a free log roll demonstration. It doesn't matter whether you're on a hard blacktop of a parking lot, on the all too familiar cement of a quiet store, or at the top of the stairs ready to plummet to the bottom. This tantrum will take place and rolling uncontrollably will be part of the show. |
So where has Fall gone???! The leaves have now almost all dropped and I am feeling the panic of winter setting in. Our beautiful neighborhood, usually all covered in greenery, has now become a bunch of naked trees awaiting the first snow fall... I don't know if I'm so anxious for that part myself!
Thomas is completely immersed in school and all the demands that come with that ball of wax. We miss him everyday and look forward to the brief moments we get with him, but Hudson and I have found many great ways to spend our days out here in Chicagoland. This is home.
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| Hudson was Bamm Bamm from the Flinstones for Halloween and his friend Sarah Navarro was Pebbles. The comical part is that we wanted to use one of Thomas' anatomy bones as a club, but Hudson is a little too good at finding objects to whack things/people with when he doesn't have a dangerous object given to him so we saw it more as a hazard than anything to let him carry around a club of sorts. He therefore looked like a pumpkin... |
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| The fork...it should be so straightforward, but even Scuttle from Little Mermaid got it all wrong. Although you can't see the detailed sauce figurines Hudson drew on himself with pesto sauce, they're there. We are getting much better with how to properly use a fork, spoon and cup. I want me a little' gentleman! It's been fun:) |
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| We have a lumberjack outdoors-man on our hands. Our little friend, Sawyer that lives next door to us, lets Hudson use his "extensive yard equipment . He has a blower, a lawn mower, a shovel, rake, and hoe that Hudson loves to borrow and put to good use. I could leave him outside all day and he would be in toddler heaven. It's the misuse of the equipment that forces me to keep an eye on him... This kid is innovative! |
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| This is taken along one of our walks that we like to go on. I had to capture the color before it all fell. It truly is SO BEAUTIFUL out here! We just said goodbye to our dear, dear, dear friends, and walking buddies, the Tranter's who moved away for Residency. We won't ever stop missing them! |
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| Here is a picture of Hudson and Emily (the Tranters' little girl). She is too cute for words. Hudson and Emily have spent a lot of time together the last year and a half and I can't help but be sad for him to lose his little friend. |
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| Aren't they cute?:) Gosh, I love these two. |
