Hudson - 8/16/2017

Hudson ate most of french toast and ate strawberries for breakfast.  For lunch he ate most of Paleo Stew with turkey burger, green beans, carrots, cauliflower, and brussel sprouts.  He ate crackers and tropical fruit.  He picked up a little brussel sprout and called it a "ball."  But he bravely tried it and then ate all of it.  I was very proud of him for giving it a try and then he liked it!  Very cool.

Nora joined Hudson on the legos table while he was building with the legos.  Nora began pitching his legos back into the drawer.  Uhhh...that's not helpful Nora!  Entertaining for Gary?... yes, helpful for Hudson? .... no.  :)  Hudson is actually pretty patient and tolerant of Baby Nora.  A few minutes later Nora was at the window and Hudson was petting Nora's hair.  He said, "Your hair is soft."  Then he noticed I was watching them and he said, "I was petting her."  Haha!  "Yes; and it was very cute and very sweet."

Hudson was playing with the binoculars that have animal pictures in them.  Similar to the "viewfinder cameras" from the last play set.  However, these binoculars are much easier for the kids to use.  Hudson said, "What's this Gary?"  I told him it was "a moose standing in the water."  Avi came running over to have a look and it amused me how she was trying to have a look too!  "I wanna see!  I wanna see!!"

I primarily took this next picture because 3 of the kids were playing with the same toy!  Sometimes it does work to have multiples of the same toy!  We also read books, played outside, and tried some more Art today.  I gave them markers (I like washable markers more than crayons) but out of the 4 kids here today Hudson was the only one to make lots of marks on his paper.  The others were more interested in coloring their hands and sucking on the markers!  Ha!  So we'll try finger painting next! Hudson was very intentional with his marking this morning and is starting to do "representational drawing."  Example: This morning he said, "This is a letter I doing."