Hudson - 8/21/2018

Hudson ate bites of waffle and two servings of grapes for breakfast.  For lunch he ate most of baked chicken, ate whole wheat dinner roll, most of corn on the cob (which I cut off the cob for him - they all wanted it cut off the cob), and ate baked cinnamon apples.  During breakfast I told Hudson that Avi's Grandma "MeMe" is at her house.  Hudson said, "I have a MeMe."  Avi said, "No you don't!"  Hudson answered, "Yes I do.  My MeMe is in Denver.  My MeMe has guinea pigs."  Avi said, "My Grandma doesn't have any guinea pigs."  :)

Hudson sat down at the table for lunch and said, "Welcome aboard and enjoy your life."  LOL!  I said, "Maybe it's enjoy your flight."  He said, "Oh."  Later he said, "Enjoy your life."  Giggle giggle.

This first picture is the same one I posted yesterday, but I wanted to make an observation about it that you may (or may not - ha) find interesting.  (This sort of thing fascinates me!!)  Over the years Lauralea and I have watched and learned how kids basically hold their crayons, pencils, markers, or whatever they are using.  There seems to be a progression of 3 stages.  The first stage - they grip it similar to the way Avi is gripping it, except with their hand turned around and the thumb pointed up.  The second stage - exactly how Avi is doing it with the thumb pointed down.  The third and final stage is the way Hudson is holding it and we call it the "adult" or final stage.  Interestingly, he was actually switching back-n-forth between that way and the way Avi is doing it.  So he is obviously just starting to hold it like that.  Second picture - At Art Time today we just turned this cardboard over and painted on the back side of it.

Last picture - Hudson and Nora were bouncing and jumping all around Linnea and she just kept moving around, never flinching at how close they are jumping.  It's pretty amazing how they watch out for each other on the mattress.  Hudson, Avi, and Nora also played with the food toys and Avi was serving food to Hudson and Nora and also trying to teach them some "manners!"  Haha!  "Say thank you for dinner Bubba!" (Repeat 3 or 4 times!)  "Say thank you for dinner Nora!"  (Repeat 3 or 4 times!)  And they both said, "Thank you."