VCC Egg Hunt

Our good friends Megan and Reese invited us to an Easter egg hunt at Vestavia Country Club this afternoon. We had such a great time!

This was the best picture we could do with two mobile toddlers. Hunt is a lot more mobile than Hudson so I'm suprised he's actually sitting in this picture! Hudson was obsessed with his Easter basket.


The weather was actually pretty by the time we got there, but they had already decided to move the Easter egg hunt inside since it was a little wet and muddy outside. They had a separate hunt for kids ages 1-2. It was total chaos! I was not prepared for the madness. You have to get your eggs fast because they get gone in a hurry! Oh and you also have to watch your basket because there were a lot of thieves out there! Ha! Hudson was a little timid at first (there was a lot going on!) and then he got the hang of it. We only walked away with about 4 eggs, but we were proud of our little man for figuring it out! The hunt lasted about 3 minutes by the way...there were so many people there!

The eggs were filled with jelly beans. I'm not sure how smart that was based on the fact that 1-2 year olds were picking these up. Naturally, while we were in the car ride home, I noticed that Hudson had gotten into one of the eggs and had a jelly bean in his mouth! I was able to get it before he tried to swallow it, but it scared me to death.

I think this is so sweet of Hudson and Hunt! They were helping each other!

Sweet boys...

The Easter bunny was there too. I knew Hudson was going to be terrified (heck, I think I was a little terrified myself--look at that thing!), but we wanted to get him up close anyway...you know, for the photo op! I was going to take him to the mall yesterday to have his picture taken with him, but decided that it would probably be more torture than anything else and a definite waste of money! I'm sure glad I decided that! He didn't want to have anything to do with the Easter bunny. Every time we got close, he started crying! He was definitely clinging to his Daddy!

They also had a train ride so we took Hudson on it. You can't tell in this picture, but he loved it!

Thanks for inviting us Megan and Reese! We had a ton of fun!

Egg Hunting Practice

Hudson practiced his egg hunting skills this morning in the back yard. We had a basket full of eggs and put them around the yard. He is still not walking, but he is doing really well holding on with one hand. He even took one successful step by himself this morning without falling. Of course, then he decided he wasn't sure about that and dropped to his knees, but progress is progress!

He really liked holding the eggs and banging them together.

I tried to teach him to put the eggs IN the basket, but all he wanted to do was to take the eggs OUT!

He wouldn't look at the camera of course.

We can't wait for Easter Sunday!

Hope everyone has a great Good Friday and remembers what Easter is all about!

No Pictures :(

I hate to put up a post without any pictures, but I didn't take any this weekend. If I had, you would have seen Hudson COVERED in a rash--all over his body, from head to toe. We don't know what it is from, but we are assuming it is probably from his antibiotic that he's still on for the ear infection (we aren't giving him any more of it). He has been on it once before, and I don't remember him breaking out in a rash, but that's the only thing that we can think of that might have caused it. Luckily, it doesn't seem to be itching or otherwise bothering him. I just wish it would go away! Seriously, one more time, can the boy catch a break??? It seems to be one thing after another.

We had Hudson's one year pictures made on Friday afternoon (before the rash appeared thank goodness!). I'm so anxious to see them. I think they are going to be good...at least, for the first few shots, Hudson was flirting and showing off and giving his huge toothy smile! It quickly went downhill from there though, and 30 minutes later we were in total meltdown mode and it was time to go. I think they are going to be cute though. I will post them when I get them!

Hudson got to spend a few hours at Joel's parents' house Friday night while Joel and I went to a meet and greet for a new Sunday school class at church. We are so excited about the new class and can't wait to get started in a couple of weeks. I had to work yesterday, so that was a bummer, but I got home in time to spend a little bit of it outside in the driveway with my little man. He loves riding in his car in the driveway. He's a bit obsessed and constantly points to the downstairs all day long so that we will take him to go ride. He even gets mad when we go get in the car to go somewhere because he wants to get in his car! He's got a one track mind for sure!

Today, we spent most of the afternoon outside. We spent a long time at the park and it was the first time that Hudson really enjoyed it. That little pointer finger kept pointing us back and forth from the swing to the slide. On the pointing note, wow, that pointer finger is pretty demanding. I have to admit that I like being able to semi-communicate with him now that he can point, but it's hard to figure out where he wants to go sometimes and he just gets mad if you don't do what he wants!

Hope everyone else enjoyed the wonderful weather this weekend as much as we did. Next post will have pictures!

Mr. Syringe

Mr. Syringe is pretty much a necessity in the Reed household. For the past few months, we've been seeing a lot of it!

Hudson loves to share, even Mr. Syringe.

Hudson has come so accustomed to it that he just LOVES it now! He gets excited when he sees the syringe come out. Tylenol, Motrin, antibiotics...he loves them all. Guess he knows what makes him feel better!

Who knew medicine could be so tasty???

Can you tell we are feeling better???

Why not let Hudson take a stab at feeding himself a little breakfast? He was feeling good and having oh so much fun.

Here's to saying goodbye to Mr. Syringe for a WHILE!

The Man Cave

Below are some overdue pictures of the finished man cave! We are so excited about having an extra room to go to. Joel (and his dad) did such a great job on it. I'm just glad it is finally done. It has been a long few months and a lot of lonely weekends while Joel has been working on it. He got it done in time for Hudson's birthday party (which was the deadline that I gave him because I thought we might could have the party down there--well, we didn't...oops!). It was good to have a deadline though!

We still need something to go over the couch, but mostly we used pictures and furniture that we already had so we wouldn't have to spend much more money decorating. My dad is so talented and has done so many Auburn pictures for us, that we just had to use them and made it an Auburn room. I thought they all worked perfectly. We did have to buy the sectional, and Joel bought the tv months ago when he got me the new camera (you know, it was such a great deal--ha!), but everything else came from stuff we already had and I think it works, especially for a man cave!

One of the best parts about the room is that there are really two rooms down there and so we made the other room Hudson's play room. It is right next to the stairs so we've got to get a gate because Hudson gets sidetracked most of the time and just wants to go climb the stairs, but our hopes are that we can all be down there and have a ton of room for Hudson to play and for us to watch tv, or play with him, whatever the case may be.

On an unrelated note, I spent this morning at the doctor's office with Hudson, and guess what, he has another ear infection. So much for the tubes. I'm so frustrated and I feel really bad for Hudson. He woke up yesterday morning with a fever, so I stayed home with him yesterday for most of the day thinking that it would just go away. It was low grade for most of the day, and Hudson was really not acting sick at all. We played and laughed and had a ball. He does have a tooth coming in, so I thought maybe that was it. Well, then the fever started to go up yesterday afternoon and so I made him an appointment for this morning. I knew by then that it had to be his ears. I thought the purpose of the tubes was to not have this happen anymore, but apparently not! It still can! I think I told someone yesterday that I have the sickliest child on the planet. I know it could be way worse so I do count my lucky stars that it's just ear infections, but can we give the poor boy a break??? I'm home again today with him...say a prayer that I don't get fired with all this time off I'm having to take!

Spring (for a couple of days!)

We had a couple of sunny days this weekend and we took full advantage of them. We spent all the time that we could outside.

Here is Joel and his little mini-me in their Polos!

Hudson had a little bit of fun in the grass. He's still not very fond of it, but I keep telling him that if he'll just start walking, he won't have to be all in the grass! He ignores me. In fact, we have regressed in the walking department. He has absolutely no interest in it anymore. He used to love going back and forth to Joel and me, but now he just goes straight to his knees. I'm frustrated because I don't know why all of a sudden he is scared of walking! I guess like anything else, he'll do it on his own time when he is ready, and everyone keeps telling me that he needs to crawl for as long as he can because life gets really wild when he starts walking!

This was maybe the cutest time all weekend. Hudson was trying to help Joel put together his new riding toy.

It was a hit too! Hudson loved it!

We did a lot of this!

And believe it or not, snow was in the forecast this morning! Crazy Alabama weather...we were wearing short sleeves on Saturday and were bundled up and freezing Sunday and today. I broke down and finally went to the doctor today. I was not getting any better and my face was hurting like no other, so I knew I probably had a sinus infection that wasn't going to go away on its own. I've only been sick for a week and a half. Two shots in both hips and two different antiobiotics, later (oh and just a 3 hour trip to Med Help--reason #1 that I hate going to the doctor!), I am finally feeling a little better. The 3 hour trip was not in the week's work plans, however, so I will be playing catch up the rest of the week! Oh April 15th, can you get here any faster???

Dinner

This is where dinner ended up tonight. So much for grilled chicken, green beans, and strawberries, a nice well balanced meal. He didn't think too much of it. The dogs, however, loved it! I normally just put the food straight on the high chair and don't use a tray or plate so I tried that after he tossed the tray and in one swoop of the arm, he had knocked off a second dinner onto the floor. It's been a fun night.

Instead, all that Hudson would eat is two fried chicken fingers, a container of yogurt, some goldfish, and two cookies. Healthy. I guess that is the life of a toddler.

I'm just not going to worry about it because he is so darn cute!

The time change has really affected Hudson this week. Well, that and the class move at daycare. He has been so tired and irritable every night, and is impossible to wake up in the mornings! Joel thought I was kidding about having a hard time waking Hudson up, but then he tried yesterday morning and had just as much trouble. I hate having to pick him up to wake him up...I like to wake him up by rubbing his back and talking to him, but that has not done anything this week! Hudson has not been happy about being woken up either. He's had a rough week. I'm anxious to see if he will sleep late in the morning since I don't work tomorrow. It will probably be the one day that he wakes up at 6 am ready to go! Ha! I think the daycare transition is going well. He never went back to the infant room like he was supposed to, so that is a good thing, although they said that he has been fussier than normal and had major fits when I left him every morning this week. I have felt like the worst mother, but I know he's probably fine 5 minutes after I'm gone. At least that's what I keep telling myself!

Check out my teeth! Anyone an orthodontist??? We are going to need you someday with those front two teeth! Just kidding, my family teases me because they always said superman could fit through my front two teeth until I got braces. I guess he gets it from me!

We are looking forward to some good weather tomorrow and Saturday! Here's to having a few days outside!