Hudson - 12/12/2016

Hudson had some chex cereal and mixed fruit for breakfast.  For lunch he ate pulled pork sandwich, drank tomato soup, and ate pickled beets.

This has been a pretty typical Monday morning at Little Treasures!  :)  The kids are usually a little more "testy" with each other and everyone is a bit tired from a busy weekend!  Hudson did just fine with the exception of a few squabbles with Cousin Sophie!!  :)  Those two know how to push each other's buttons.  Who's the instigator!?  It's pretty equally balanced!!  They take turns!  Ha!  (This will be posted in both of their Journals - see if I can instigate a Family Feud! Ha!)

Here's the explanation for the first picture: Avi had bent over and laid her head on Baby Nora's head  (to give her a love) and it was SO sweet!!  I grabbed the camera to see if we could stage a replay!  "Avi, give Baby Nora a love!"  Hudson heard me say that and came running over to give the Baby a love and Avi, of course, just pretended like she hadn't heard me!  Ha!

Hudson LOVES to be a helper!  And I try to give all of them opportunities to be helpers!  He now considers it his job to hold the Baby's bottle (see picture below) while I get the baby ready and he'll hand me the bottle when I am ready!  Thanks Hudson.  So I decided to take a picture this morning.  Well of course as I was taking the picture Sophie yelled, "The mail's here!!"  Hudson spotted the Mailman, dropped the bottle on the couch, and ran to the window!!  LOL!!  I laughed so hard!  (Also, note in the picture he is wearing those masks again!  Ha!)

Hudson - 12/9/2016

Hudson ate a big bowl of oatmeal for breakfast.  No canned prunes.  He's ate them before, but wasn't interested in having a bite this morning.  For lunch he ate a large serving of hash brown casserole, ate a biscuit, and 1 piece of mandarin orange.

Hudson was so cute when he saw Lauralea this morning.  He was excited; spinning in circles and clapping.  And chanting, "Hi LorLor, hi LorLor.."  Then he was pointing to the Daycare Room saying, "Come on, come on, come on....."  :)

I was using my electric tooth brush this morning in the Daycare Room and Sophie, Hudson, and Avi came running to see it!  Sophie was pretty convinced it was Lauralea's toothbrush.  And they are identical.  "That Lauralea's toothbrush?!?"  No.  :)

Whenever Reid drops his blanket Hudson will frequently take it to him.  I took this picture when Hudson was trying to hand the blanket to Reid.  Reid was engrossed in his play and said, "You can lay it down Bubba."  Ha!  However, Hudson really wanted Reid to take it!!  After all that's how it usually works!!  The boy loves his routines!!

Here's a picture of Hudson having a love surge for Baby Nora!  He was giving her sweet loves so I got the camera and asked him if he'd give her a love again!  She had turned over, but this is still super cute.  It's a Baby Pillow!!  Well done Bubba!!

We used a box and a blanket this morning and had a whole new place to play!  Sophie said it was her house and Hudson played in there with her.  I guess Reid believed her because later he asked Sophie if he could play in her house!  :)

Hudson - 12/8/2016

Hudson ate some raisin english muffin and a few bites of cantaloupe for breakfast.  For lunch he ate turkey slices, dinner roll, green beans, and mangoes.  This isn't about Hudson, but I think you'll like it:  I was singing "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" at breakfast and Reid said, "Can you stop singing that!?!"  (After about the 6th time.)  Why?  "It kind of getting boring!"  LOL

Here's a picture of what Hudson frequently does in the morning; interacting with "Lor Lor!"  "Hi Lor Lor, Hi Lor Lor!!"  Lauralea was having breakfast and preparing for her day and when I took this picture she was playing peek-a-boo with Bubba.  He was peeking over the top of the gate and was giggling.

Reid was pretending to thump Avi and Hudson with the Big Bear's feet and they were getting a kick out of his attention.  Then he wanted to hide under the bears and asked; "Put bear on me so no one can see me."  (Not really "asking," but he said it kindly!  Ha!)  Avi and Hudson were looking to see what happened to Reid!!

Hudson played with the cars and one of the car ramps.  I primarily took this picture so you could see it's a "3 Mask" day!  He likes wearing those masks around his neck and wore the three of them all morning!  We played Christmas songs and read lots of books at Story Time.  He was also taking toys to Baby Nora and was wanting her to reach out and take them.  Very cute.

Hudson - 12/6/2016

Hudson ate bagel and apricots for breakfast.  At the breakfast table I asked Hudson, "What's your name?"  He said, "Yellow!!"  Haha!  For lunch he ate everything; chicken, whole wheat elbow noodles, peas, and applesauce.

Hudson always has to arrange his blanket when he gets up from his nap and make sure it's laying on the nap mat.  Yesterday he was standing on the blanket pulling on it and saying, "stuck stuck stuck..."  In yesterday's Blog he was "stuck stuck stuck" when Avi sat on his foot.  Today he was done with breakfast and ready to get out of the highchair; "stuck stuck stuck."

I love this picture of Hudson at the drums.  He looks like a serious musician!!  (With a mask around his neck.)  He drummed several times this morning,

I'm including a couple of "group" pictures today.  They haven't all been together for several days and maybe that's the reason they played in close proximity to each other for a long time this morning.  Avi is on the left, Reid is upside down, you can see the back of Hudson's head, and Sophie is in the background.

I thought this was so cute how the 4 of them were all huddled around the legos creation.  Reid was mostly concerned about Avilene grabbing the legos but she did awesome and never touched them once!  Reid said, "Avi might wreck it."  Then he looked at her and said, "You do your own Avi."  Ha! A few minutes later Hudson was spinning around and around for a long time.  He plopped down backwards and set right on the legos creation!  Smash! Ha!  Sophie was the only one left playing with it, but she just laughed.  Probably because I was laughing so hard - it looked hilarious!  Reid said, "Bubba make explosion!"

Hudson - 12/5/2016

Hudson ate bites of breakfast: bran cereal and raisins.  For lunch he had two servings of cheese & canadian bacon pizza, ate corn, and tropical fruit.

Here are some pictures of the kids playing with the "new" toys in this toy set.  They had all the phones out and here's what their conversation sounded like.  "What are these things Hudson?!?"  So Hudson explained to her; "These are 'flip-phones' that were used by our ancestors!!  Ha!  (And still used by Gary, except he is in the process of getting a smart phone - meaning; I'm not giving out the number until I figure out how to use this thing so the Daycare Families can message me!!)

I thought this was a cute picture of the two of them sitting and reading together  (Sophie is not here today.)  The picture looks pretty peaceful right!?  Here's what happened as soon as I took this picture.  Avilene had just plopped down and sat right on his foot.  Bubba was trying to pull his foot out from under her and was saying, "Stuck, stuck, stuck...!!!.."  :)

Here's Avilene totally examining the "bear mask" on Hudson's face.  (We've had little kids her age that would cry when the masks were out.  So they had to go bye-bye!  The masks, not the kids!  Ha!) I like how Avi has her finger up to her mouth....hmmm...."What exactly is that thing Bubba!?!"  Hudson had been struggling to get the mask on (he had it around his neck) so I helped him get it on. Then after I took the picture he started whimpering.  It kind of surprised me when he started to whimper and I said, "You can take it off if you don't like it!"  Boy he whipped that thing off so fast!!

Here is an FYI in case someone looks at Avilene's Blog today.  Whenever the kids interact like these two did this morning I take advantage of that and their two Blogs will look very similar.  Anytime I can "copy and paste" I use it!!

Hudson - 12/2/2016

Hudson ate malt-o-meal cereal and raisins for breakfast.  For lunch he ate ground beef, whole wheat elbow noodles, apple bites, and mixed fruit.

This first picture is from yesterday afternoon when the only ones left here were Hudson, Riley, and Kenzie.  Hudson loves it when their focus is totally on him!!  Ha!!  They had him in the swivel/rocker chair, covered with a doll blanket, and were giving him the royal treatment.  He was soaking up the attention!!

Reid is here today and the kids love having him.  (He'll be here very regular starting Monday as his Mom begins a new job.)  I'm including this picture of Reid because he was spraying water on his art picture and on Bubba's art picture too.  Hudson did lots of coloring on the coffee filter (Bubba's picture is on the right) and then we spray water on them and watch the colors run.

Avilene and Hudson have occasionally been after the same toy lately.  (Which is why I have 3 and 4 of everything!!  And that helps sometimes!  Ha!)  Hudson has mastered the favorite Toddler word "mine" and uses it frequently.  This morning he was trying to hold three phones and run across the room from Avi yelling, "mine mine mine."  Nope, they don't come with social skills and that's why I focus on the social-emotional aspect!  :)

Hudson was trying to help Reid push one of the big bears into the igloo when I took this picture.  I guess Reid wasn't convinced he was helping because he said, "Don't take it out; push it back in.!" Actually Bubba was trying hard to help!  :)

Hudson - 12/1/2016

Hudson ate raisin english muffin and blueberries for breakfast.  For lunch he ate chicken, crackers, sweet potatoes, and one cherry.

Hudson watches and learns everything that's happening around him.  He knows when anyone takes off shoes and/or socks they go on the changing table.  He watches me take care of Baby Nora and Avi and wants to mimic that too.  This morning I put Avi in her highchair at breakfast and noticed she was missing one shoe.  Where'd I find it?  On the changing table.  Thank you Hudson.  (Sophie is not here today.)  I fed Nora her bottle and Hudson immediately picked it up and took it to the changing table.  He took off his socks - to the changing table...ok, you get the idea.  :)  Then I turned around and he was trying to yank off Baby Nora's socks!  LOL!  She was fussing and he had her totally SURROUNDED with doll blankets and stuffed animals; which wasn't helping much, but he was really trying!  After I fed Nora baby food I turned around and Hudson had some food toys (ice cream cone and spoon) and feeding Nora with the spoon jammed in her mouth.  Yikes!  So I modeled how he could pretend feed one of his (dolls) babies.  :)

Hudson and Avilene were at the window just looking at the snow and watching it snow.  And smacking the window!  Apparently in unison too, right!?

Here's a couple pictures of Avi and Hudson doing what Toddlers do!  :)  Avi was opening the door to the oven and Bubba would close it.  Except he wanted her to leave it closed and wasn't thrilled that she kept opening it.  She would open it then look at him to wait for his response.  :)  She liked initiating that response!!  In the last picture Avi was playing in the legos drawer and apparently Bubba didn't think that was acceptable.  Ha!  I informed him it was totally acceptable.