Hudson - 5/31/2018

Hudson ate whole wheat bagel and two servings of peaches for breakfast.  For lunch he ate sausage and hamburger pizza on whole wheat pizza crust with tomato sauce, mushrooms, olives, pineapple, and peppers.  He also ate a serving of pineapple on the side.

This first note is actually left over from yesterday, but I thought it was funny.  Less than 5 minutes after arrival Hudson said, "I didn't eat here yet!"  Haha!  No, that would have been a very quick breakfast.  So he asked, "What'd you guys eat?!?"  I guess he was sure he'd missed it!  So this morning I teased him and said, "Well we already ate and you missed it!"  He didn't miss a beat and said, "So are we gonna read Books!?!"  (Which is our first "after breakfast" activity!)  Even though he thought I was serious I consider that well played Hudson!  :)

Here's a picture of Hudson's first activity of the day - waving bye at the window this morning to Nora's Daddy Ryan.  Hudson put the plate in front of his face and said, "This will scare him!"  Haha!  Then Atley had to run get a plate and do the same thing of course.

I have to include a picture of Hudson with Svea every day this week!!  It's a good thing she's here or Hudson would be having withdrawal pains with Linnea gone all week!!  I showed him a picture of Linnea playing in the sand on an Oregon beach.  He said, "That's my favorite baby!!  So true!!

In the last picture; Hudson, Avi, and Atley were all wearing tutus and spinning in circles.  Hudson added another dimension to it by wearing the doll blanket over his head.  He said, "I'm getting kinda dizzy!"  I believe you!  You're spinning very fast!!

Hudson - 5/30/2018

Hudson ate bites of whole wheat toast and ate grapes for breakfast.  For lunch he ate pork chop, most of whole grain tortilla, most of carrots, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, and he ate fruit salad.  At the lunch table Hudson scooted over by Atley, put his arm around her, and said to Avi (who sits across the table), "Take a picture." It was so cute and funny.

In the first picture; Hudson asked if he could talk to the Baby and he said, "She's happy that I'm by her side."  So sweet.  Svea does respond very positively to him!  I told him he'd have one of these at his house by the end of the year.  He said, "My baby is not a good player."  Ha!  2nd Picture; that happens to be an apron that Hudson and Avilene have stretched out between them! Hudson kept saying, "Come on puppy, come on puppy!!"  Sometimes the puppy followed, sometimes the puppy resisted!!

Here are a couple more pictures from this morning.  Hudson and Avi found the tightest cubby hole to play in.  And they played there for at least 10 - 15 minutes.  They love stuffing those bags completely full of random toys.  In the last picture you can see one of the ways they like to sit in the swivel/rocker and propel the chair around and around.  Bet you can't guess what Avi is yelling at Bubba?!  "I wanna drive Bubba, I wanna drive!!"  :)  Then Hudson had some news to share with Avilene;  "Hey Avi! There's a volcano erupting UP in Hawaii!"  She said, "oh."  He continued, "They were talking about it on TV."  :)

Hudson - 5/29/2018

Hudson ate most of breakfast: whole wheat english muffin and dried plums.  For lunch he ate chicken, bites of brown rice, ate stir fry vegetables, and a large serving of oranges.  At the lunch table Hudson looked around at everyone and asked; "Hey Gary! When are these guys gonna go to kindergarten??"  Ha!  So I asked him when he was gonna go?  He said, "When I grow up."  :)

Isn't this first picture cute?  Hudson asked if he could talk to Svea.  He loves the babies and is in training for being a big brother.  While he was watching Svea he asked me; "Did you hear the cute little noises she was making?"  So sweet.  Linnea is on vacation all week and Hudson was having some love pains dealing that!  "Is Linnea coming?!?"  :)

The next picture; Hudson pushed his pile of blocks over to the wall and said, "That is for the next working day."  :)  Then he was laying like you see in the picture working on something and I asked him what he was doing. He said, "I'm working on this thing that keeps going on and off."  :)  Nice job Hudson.  Picture number three;  Hudson was at the bottom of the slide while the others were sliding down and he kept asking all of them; "Do you want me to catch you!?!"  So here's Hudson "catching" Atley.  She intentionally kind of pushed forward and ended up on top of him and Believe me he wanted out from under her!!  She kind of just bowled him over.  :)  That made me laugh!!  But he kept trying to "catch" them!!

Here's a picture of an activity that all four of the "older" kids were involved in.  Avilene is at the bottom of this pile of stuffed animals, pillows, and blankets.  (You can see her feet and a few inches of her legs coming out the far end of the pile.)  It's pretty amazing she'd let them pile all this stuff on her while she lay perfectly still!  It makes me slightly nervous and I keep a VERY close eye on this kind of activity.  (It wasn't packed tightly and no one got on top of the pile!)  Hudson kept saying, "Don't move Avi, don't move!"  Well she really wasn't moving!!  Then Hudson said he wanted a turn and the first thing he yelled  - "Don't cover my face!!"  Ha!

Hudson - 5/25/2018

Hudson ate most of brown rice and most of raisins for breakfast.  For lunch he ate bites of salmon, ate whole wheat dinner roll, green beans, and mangoes.  Lauralea said, "bye kids" at breakfast like she does just about every day.  They (Nora, Atley, Avilene, and Hudson) were all laughing and giggling, waving bye and chanting, "bye kids" as she was leaving.  :)

This first picture represents one of Hudson's favorite ways to play here at Daycare.  Fill the containers with as many toys as possible and he sometimes combines that with making piles of toys.  Yesterday he had the majority of the toys in the room piled on the couch along with the pillows, dolls, and doll blankets.  The couch was full and stacked high!!

In this next picture Hudson and Avilene were pushing each other in the swivel/rocker and Hudson must have gotten a love surge because he laid his head in Avi's lap.  For a very brief moment!  That's about all she could handle!  haha!  Look at her hands; "ok, that's enough!"  She's ready to push him away!  Next picture;  Atley and Nora were using the legos flowers for pacifiers, so Hudson and Ave were like; "why not us too?!?"  :)

 

In the last picture the kids are waiting for me to take a picture after they finished gluing some animals at Art Time.  They enjoy the gluing as it's something we don't regularly do!  It's fun as long as I have a damp cloth ready for them to use to wipe their hands clean from any glue!!  :)

Hudson - 5/24/2018

Hudson ate whole wheat english muffin and bites of oranges for breakfast.  For lunch he ate half of ground beef, large serving of elbow noodles covered with a large serving of applesauce and ate all of his peas.  I know the kids are usually just about done eating if they start messing around at meal time.  At lunch today Atley was close to being done and she started closing her eyes saying, "nap time!" Avi and Hudson did the same.  Then Avi opens her eyes and said, "Morning time!!"  Repeat over and over.  (As you can obviously see this wasn't the first time for this game!!)  Ok kids that's hilarious, but lets go into the play room to play!!  :)

Lauralea was leaving for work and just like every morning all the kids were giving her hugs and telling her "bye."  Except this morning Avi said, "Watch for cars!"  Haha!  Hudson followed up with; "And don't ever trip!"  Haha!

This first picture is from yesterday afternoon when the kids were playing in the two tunnels we have hooked together.  I think there were two or maybe three kids inside the tunnel when I took the picture. They were having fun rolling the big balls along in front of them.  I like how Linnea is just waiting for someone to appear at this end.

Here are a couple pictures of Hudson and Linnea from this morning.  He loves playing close to her and she loves it just as much!!  He's getting tons of practice being a big brother and he's loving every minute of it!!

Avi was playing with one of the little play houses and little people.  There is table, chairs, a potty, and other assorted "stuff" that goes with them.  She yelled for Hudson and asked, "Do you wanna go potty in here!?!"  He came over to have a look and said, "No."  She said, "Why not!?!  It's really nice!!"  Haha!  That made me laugh.  However, I always get a little nervous when children this age start playing and talking like that when they are no longer wearing diapers!!  (Please don't go potty here!  You're not wearing a diaper!!)

Hudson - 5/23/2018

Hudson ate half of french toast and half of strawberries for breakfast.  For lunch he ate paleo stew with chicken and turkey, carrots, broccoli, sweet potatoes, green beans, and cauliflower.  He also ate lots of crackers and ate tropical fruit.  At lunch I said, "Ok everyone, Hudson went to Denver.  Hudson, would you like to give a report about your trip?"  He said, "Well, I went to Denver."  What'd you do there?  He said, "When I was a baby I went to the zoo.  And the museum."  Haha!  He was combining some trips!  What'd you do at Tutu and Pappy's?  One word answer: "Hammer."  So I told him I had a "Hammer Song" for him and I started singing, "If I had a hammer I'd hammer in the morning...."  Haha!  (That's going back a couple of years!)

Guess who Hudson was TOTALLY focused on for the first 45 minutes this morning?!?  He obviously missed his Linnea friend and everyone else was basically chopped liver!!  Ha!  Here's a couple of pictures when he was playing beside her.  In the 2nd picture I'd just asked him if he'd kiss the top of Linnea's head so I could get a picture.  At the same time she took off, but he wasn't about to quit trying to kiss her.  Haha!  And under the balance beam they go!!

Here are some more pictures from this morning.  Hudson was filling this "purse" very full of toys and then dumping them in front of Linnea.  The middle picture;  The kids had been running back-n-forth between the mirror and the gate - their favorite "running trail" in the play room.  :)  Nora's looking at Hudson and Avi like "come on, let's keep going!"  Look at Avi's face - There's your answer Nora! And the last picture is some more dot painting at Art Time.

Hudson - 5/18/2018

Hudson had several bites of breakfast: oatmeal and baked cinnamon apples.  For lunch he ate several bites of hamburger stew with meat, carrots, green beans, tomatoes, and hash browns.  He ate half of whole wheat dinner roll and a large serving of apricots.  At breakfast Hudson was quizzing me about why Avilene, Svea, and Atley are gone today.  It was hard to have a conversation with him as Nora's voice was loudly proclaiming; "Nor Nor here!  Nor Nor here!  Nor Nor here!!"  Haha!

This week Kenzie and Riley have been catching Roly Poly Bugs and here's another picture of the kid's fascination with the bugs.  Lauralea and I were talking last night about a little boy (who's now about to graduate from high school) who was probably around Linnea's age (10 months) and just like Linnea he would put everything on the patio in his mouth!!  We found 5, yes 5, Roly Poly Bugs in his mouth one day!  Lauralea was gagging and just about puked!!

Here are some pictures from this morning's activities.  I like the 2nd picture - only these 3 kids here today and they're in a pretty tight circle!  :)  Last picture; Nora upside down watching Hudson and Linnea disappear under the balance beam.  Here's another random proclamation from Hudson this morning; "Sunday Mommy is gonna go to the hospital where my baby is gonna POP out!  And Tutu and Pappy are gonna stay with me!!"  Wow!  That's not exactly what I heard about the Denver trip, but this comes from Mr. News Broadcaster himself!!  :)