I love Christmas! I really, really do! Which is why I decided to finally finish the novel of a post I was working on about the last few months so I could post about the things I am so excited about right now!
My heart is just full of joy this Christmas Season. I have warm house, a wonderful husband, and a perfect, precious little boy. I love how happy my little family makes me! December has been a great month for me so far, and I just cannot contain how happy I am to be alive right now!
Hudson has grown so much the last few weeks...my baby is no longer a newborn, he is definitely a little baby! He started rolling from his tummy to his back the week of Thanksgiving, and I can normally get him to roll at least once or twice a day. He has only rolled once from his back to his stomach, but I'm pretty sure that's because something was in the middle of the bed that helped to make and indent for him to roll into. I also have a SMILEY baby boy! His smiles just light up the whole room! They are so adorable! Sometimes it takes some coaxing to get them out of him...but don't worry, they come. Sometimes on the days when I am feeling especially down, he start smiling and cooing, and everything becomes better! For awhile he would only smile at me, but now he is smiling at everyone as long as you play with him. He also has GROWN!!! BIG TIME! I put him to bed one night, and I think he must have eaten some magic beans or something because when he woke up he was bigger! No joke! He was heavier and longer, and just had a different look of understanding, he now will focus on things and explore them. Especially his hands and feet which I just think is so precious. He really is just the perfect little baby. His reflux is getting better. He only throws up a few times a week instead of multiple times a day, and he isn't nearly as fussy. Except when I take him to the store....I think that little guy has a store radar because he will be great and happy all day long, and then as soon as we get into the store he starts screaming! So the only way I can go to the store now is to hold him in one arm, and push the cart and shop with the other.
This week is finals and Joe is working so hard to get good grades in all of his classes. He has decided that he wants to go to Medical school now, so he is working extra hard to make sure his grades are good, and I am so proud of him. They are training him for a management position at work so he has been going in early every day for the last week or so. I am so proud of him for how hard he has worked at his company.
As for me I am just loving being a mommy. Getting a little stir crazy at home though. I am excited for when school starts again (I think I just have a thing for being busy,) but I am worried about babysitters for Hudson and how I am going to juggle that. I've been so excited this entire month because at the end of this week Hudson and I get to go to my parent's house for Christmas! Hudson and I will be going home on Sunday with Allison, while Joe stays in Rexburg for a few more days to work, and then he will drive to Gooding to spend Christmas with us! I'm really grateful that Joe is willing to stay by himself for a few days so that I can get some extra time with my family. I felt bad that I was going to be leaving him, so I put together a Christmas countdown for him, so that he will have something special each day this month! It has been a great project for me because I love getting to do sweet "wifey" type things for my husband and this had "sweet wifey" written all over it! I'll post a picture of it, but basically Joe gets to read one card each day before he goes to work and it is an assortment of compliments, services, and activities. I LOVE getting to watch him read them and get all excited about his "gift" for the day. It has really also helped me to see all the helpful, little thing he does for me, and has increased my love for him even more!
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Halloween, Thanksgiving, and all the stuff in between!
Well, it's been forever and I day since I posted last. I kind of got out of my freak out about putting things about the baby on facebook (basically because he is so stinkin cute and i love that my friends and family get to see him) and stopped updating my blog as often. Life has been so great since our sweet baby joined our family. I cannot believe how incredibly happy life has made me in the last year.
So here is the run down of life lately.
On October 16 we went to Gooding to bless the baby in my home ward. It was so wonderful to be surrounded by such loving family and friends as we blessed our baby. His blessing was beautiful and Joe did such a great job even though he was really nervous. It was one of those moments when I was struck as to what a sweet precious angel I have been given. I have always loved hearing baby blessings and I have always thought they were beautiful, but there is something very special about it being YOUR baby's blessing. The spirit was so strong, and I am so blessed to have such a wonderful baby. I know that my little man is going to be a great son that will bring me a lot of happiness, and do some wonderful things in his life.
The next week Joe's parents came and stayed with us and we had a blast!!! I really love my in-laws! They have raised such a good man, husband and father. Being with them all week gave me an insight as to why Joey is the way his and why I am so lucky to have them! I also am blessed to have such a wonderful mother-in-law. She is such a wonderful, loving mother and she makes me feel like one of her own. I'm glad I married into such a great family.
Our anniversary was on the 23 of October and we celebrated by going out for dinner and buying a moby wrap!!! Happy Anniversary to us! (I had been wanting a moby wrap since the baby came, and it has since proved to be a lifesaver!) I cannot believe that we have been married for a year! So much has happened and I am so lucky to be married to such a wonderful man! I've really grown a lot this year and learned a lot about life that I didn't really understand before. I really can't believe how blessed I am, and how happy one man could make me!
Halloween was great, we dressed Hudson up as a little skeleton, and did his hair in a mow-hawk for Joe's work party, and for our ward party, and then on the actual day of Halloween we dressed him up as pooh bear. I was so excited to finally get trick-or-treaters, and we only got one!!! and that's because the kids door-bell ditched us and didn't run away in time! I felt sad...but, it meant I got to eat all the candy!
Novemeber was pretty uneventful except one big thing...HUDSON STARTED SMILING! He is now a full fledged smiler and it just lights up the whole room when he smiles. He just started recognizing me and he gets a huge grin whenever he sees me. He also is starting to recognize himself in the mirror and smile when he see's himself. (I'm not sure if he realizes yet that that is him he sees in the mirror or just someone he knows.) We are still working on getting him to recognize Joey, but I'm sure it's coming soon.
November was a bit of a hard month. Hudson started throwing up constantly and we determined he has acid reflux, so he was throwing up projectile almost every time he ate, and his poor little tummy hurt all the time. But, I think that is coming to it's end, because he isn't throwing up nearly as much now as he was, and he seems to be a lot happier.
Thanksgiving Break was a great holiday, but also quite stressful! My big sister Mari had her wedding on the day after Thanksgiving, so on Wednesday we flew down to Arizona, and Hudson did GREAT on the plane! It was a ton of fun seeing my family and getting to play with my Aunt Kelly and Uncle Bill and their family for a few days! Friday was the wedding, and it was such a beautiful wedding. My sister was a gorgeous bride and her husband is a good man, and you can tell that he loves her very much! They asked me to sing as part of the wedding ceremony, and I only had one day to prepare, so I was really, really nervous to sing. I bought a karaoke track for the song the morning of, and nobody told me that they couldn't get that track onto the I-pod they were using for the wedding. They had to download a different version of the song...one that was not karaoke! So I came forward when it was my turn to sing, the music started, and I opened my mouth to sing...and...someone started singing with me!!! I was super startled and bewildered, because I couldn't figure out how the track without words that I bought suddenly had words on it! AHHH!!! But I kept on singing, and did a good job so it wasn't that big of a deal. I wasn't told until after the wedding what had happened.
We flew back into Salt Lake on Saturday morning and we got to spend the day with Joe's parents and his sister Katie because Joe's cousin Charity got married that day and they were there for the wedding. We got to watch as Charity and her new husband came out of the Temple, and it was really neat being reminded of how excited Joe and I were when we came out of the Temple together! We got to introduce Hudson to my Aunt Ann who we met for lunch on Saturday and it was really great to see her!
Around five while we were at the dinner for the wedding, my stomach started to really start hurting. It hit the point where it hurt to walk and all of that fun jazz, so we decided to go to the emergency room in Salt Lake. The Dr. needed a CT scan to look at my stomach, so I got to do one of those and some other fun tests, the stinky thing about the CT scan is that the radiation gets into breast milk, so Hudson got to start on formula! Hooray...not really. He took it pretty well though, and I pretty much cried each time I had to pump a bottle and dump it out. That milk is like liquid gold! Not even kidding! After the CT scan the Dr. came in and said that I have a Hiated Hernia, and to go see my Dr. when I got home. After seeing my Dr. he gave me some medicine to help my bowel movements, and to start eating LOTS of fruits and veggies, drink TONS of water, and get a lot of fiber. I am feeling much better now, and life is pretty good.
So here is the run down of life lately.
On October 16 we went to Gooding to bless the baby in my home ward. It was so wonderful to be surrounded by such loving family and friends as we blessed our baby. His blessing was beautiful and Joe did such a great job even though he was really nervous. It was one of those moments when I was struck as to what a sweet precious angel I have been given. I have always loved hearing baby blessings and I have always thought they were beautiful, but there is something very special about it being YOUR baby's blessing. The spirit was so strong, and I am so blessed to have such a wonderful baby. I know that my little man is going to be a great son that will bring me a lot of happiness, and do some wonderful things in his life.
The next week Joe's parents came and stayed with us and we had a blast!!! I really love my in-laws! They have raised such a good man, husband and father. Being with them all week gave me an insight as to why Joey is the way his and why I am so lucky to have them! I also am blessed to have such a wonderful mother-in-law. She is such a wonderful, loving mother and she makes me feel like one of her own. I'm glad I married into such a great family.
Our anniversary was on the 23 of October and we celebrated by going out for dinner and buying a moby wrap!!! Happy Anniversary to us! (I had been wanting a moby wrap since the baby came, and it has since proved to be a lifesaver!) I cannot believe that we have been married for a year! So much has happened and I am so lucky to be married to such a wonderful man! I've really grown a lot this year and learned a lot about life that I didn't really understand before. I really can't believe how blessed I am, and how happy one man could make me!
Halloween was great, we dressed Hudson up as a little skeleton, and did his hair in a mow-hawk for Joe's work party, and for our ward party, and then on the actual day of Halloween we dressed him up as pooh bear. I was so excited to finally get trick-or-treaters, and we only got one!!! and that's because the kids door-bell ditched us and didn't run away in time! I felt sad...but, it meant I got to eat all the candy!
Novemeber was pretty uneventful except one big thing...HUDSON STARTED SMILING! He is now a full fledged smiler and it just lights up the whole room when he smiles. He just started recognizing me and he gets a huge grin whenever he sees me. He also is starting to recognize himself in the mirror and smile when he see's himself. (I'm not sure if he realizes yet that that is him he sees in the mirror or just someone he knows.) We are still working on getting him to recognize Joey, but I'm sure it's coming soon.
November was a bit of a hard month. Hudson started throwing up constantly and we determined he has acid reflux, so he was throwing up projectile almost every time he ate, and his poor little tummy hurt all the time. But, I think that is coming to it's end, because he isn't throwing up nearly as much now as he was, and he seems to be a lot happier.
Thanksgiving Break was a great holiday, but also quite stressful! My big sister Mari had her wedding on the day after Thanksgiving, so on Wednesday we flew down to Arizona, and Hudson did GREAT on the plane! It was a ton of fun seeing my family and getting to play with my Aunt Kelly and Uncle Bill and their family for a few days! Friday was the wedding, and it was such a beautiful wedding. My sister was a gorgeous bride and her husband is a good man, and you can tell that he loves her very much! They asked me to sing as part of the wedding ceremony, and I only had one day to prepare, so I was really, really nervous to sing. I bought a karaoke track for the song the morning of, and nobody told me that they couldn't get that track onto the I-pod they were using for the wedding. They had to download a different version of the song...one that was not karaoke! So I came forward when it was my turn to sing, the music started, and I opened my mouth to sing...and...someone started singing with me!!! I was super startled and bewildered, because I couldn't figure out how the track without words that I bought suddenly had words on it! AHHH!!! But I kept on singing, and did a good job so it wasn't that big of a deal. I wasn't told until after the wedding what had happened.
We flew back into Salt Lake on Saturday morning and we got to spend the day with Joe's parents and his sister Katie because Joe's cousin Charity got married that day and they were there for the wedding. We got to watch as Charity and her new husband came out of the Temple, and it was really neat being reminded of how excited Joe and I were when we came out of the Temple together! We got to introduce Hudson to my Aunt Ann who we met for lunch on Saturday and it was really great to see her!
Around five while we were at the dinner for the wedding, my stomach started to really start hurting. It hit the point where it hurt to walk and all of that fun jazz, so we decided to go to the emergency room in Salt Lake. The Dr. needed a CT scan to look at my stomach, so I got to do one of those and some other fun tests, the stinky thing about the CT scan is that the radiation gets into breast milk, so Hudson got to start on formula! Hooray...not really. He took it pretty well though, and I pretty much cried each time I had to pump a bottle and dump it out. That milk is like liquid gold! Not even kidding! After the CT scan the Dr. came in and said that I have a Hiated Hernia, and to go see my Dr. when I got home. After seeing my Dr. he gave me some medicine to help my bowel movements, and to start eating LOTS of fruits and veggies, drink TONS of water, and get a lot of fiber. I am feeling much better now, and life is pretty good.
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