The Friends & Family Plan

Hudson & I have been so lucky the past few weeks with all of our visitors!! My mom, dad and Jay's parents visit regularly, Jay's aunt Fran came to meet Hudson, friends have provided us with food, and my aunt Kay is coming at the end of the month! So even though I haven't posted daily about their visits, I have been good about getting pictures of everybody with Huddy Buddy and wanted you all to see them...

Hud with his Pops & Gaga

Uncle Dave

Aunt Sissy & Bryan

Kelly...with Kade still in her belly! (Thank GOD he's not anymore, huh Kel?!?)

Miss Suzy

Aunt Sissy loving on some Hud.

Christin & Rich...you guys next?!? Haha.

Aunt Fran was here to meet Hud and celebrate her birthday!

Papi!!!

Hud & his girlfriend, Nora

Aunt Kari & cousin Drew

I love my Baby Bjorn!

Dear Readers of Mommy's Blog,

Hudson here. I just wanted to write to sing the praises of the Baby Bjorn. You see, as of the last couple of days, I've been extremely fussy if not being held--seriously--it doesn't matter if I'm asleep or awake.
I. Want. To. Be. In. Someone's. Arms.

But now that I weigh 8 lbs (well, 7lbs., 15.8oz to be exact....but Mommy said that's practically 8 lbs.), I get to hang out in the Baby Bjorn while Mommy tries to get stuff done around the house. It's the best of both worlds! She feels like she's accomplishing enough to justify spending the entire day at home (I know, I know, tell her to give herself a break...she's on Maternity Leave for crying out loud!) and I get to nuzzle up right against her! ***Sigh***

Here I am trying it out last night with Daddy.

And here's a pic of me and Mommy today! She's already done a load of laundry and we're typing this blog together! (I promise I'm in there...I was just taking a short snooze...)

Now if only we could figure out a way for her to get a shower while I'm in this thing...

Happy Anniversary Ellie

This weekend was the 1 year anniversary of our life with Ellie. We sure are thankful for her! And so proud of her since Hudson's arrival. While she's always been super sweet, she's also a rambunctious 2-year-old puppy. But now that Hudson is here and we are at home most of the day every day, she is calmer, less mischevious, and even sweeter if possible. Our only difficulty is keeping her from licking her baby brother from head to toe!

The day we adopted her. It was love at first sight!

Today. Click on the link below to see a beautiful photo of Miss Ellie May thanks to Curtis Baker.

http://curty.zenfolio.com/hudson/e11227d9c

Hudson's 1st Photo Shoot

Hud may be a model some day! Or not. :)

Over the last couple of days (yes, it took more than one shoot), an old friend of ours from high school--Megan--now a photographer, came over to take newborn pics of Hud. You know those really cute pictures of newborns where they're asleep and all curled up in baskets, hats, and on top of dressers, etc.? Yeah, she couldn't get much of those because apparently Hudson likes to stay awake during photo shoots and track the camera and look directly into the lens! Luckily, Megan's a great photographer and still got some great shots! And even though we hadn't seen each other in forever, it was great spending time with her and getting to meet her little ones (who I've--naturally--been following on facebook). Huddy Buddy and I are looking forward to playdates!

Check out the rest of some of the photos on Megan's blog: http://theothermegan.com/blog/?p=414

A Day in the Life

Wednesday 4.21.10
Hudson is 13 days old

7:30 - 8:00a.m. 1st feeding of the day! Then a little wake time and nap time in which I found time to get ready (sans shower ;)), and make our first trip out! We went to Starbucks and Target...all by ourselves! Sure, my knuckes were white from gripping the steering wheel so hard, but we did it. :)

11a.m. 2nd feeding of the day + wake time + nap time. Hudson and I hung out and then Mommy took some time to "work" (a.k.a. update my blog) around the house and have lunch.

Oh, and Ellie looked out for her brudder.

2p.m. 3rd feeding of the day + a walk around the neighborhood during which time Huddy fell asleep which gave me time to shower when we got home.

5p.m. Daddy starts heading home (yay!) and we have our 4th feeding of the day + family time once Jay's home and *hopefully* we make and eat dinner. (Or, in reality, we just have to assemble & heat thanks to generous family & friends!)

8p.m. 5th feeding and we watch our favorite shows (American Idol, Lost, Parenthood, Glee, Braves games).

11p.m. Daddy's gone to bed by now and Huddy has his last feeding of the night. This is when I start praying that he'll fall asleep immediately after...which he did NOT do last night!

4a.m. If I'm lucky, Hudson sleeps until now and we have our middle of the night feeding...and *hopefully* go back to sleep! :)

And then we start all over again!!!

This is my new life now. And I love it. I'd  always felt like God made me to be a wife and a mother, and now I'm more sure than ever! Jay and I seem to have a difficult time remembering back 14 days ago before Hudson was in our lives...