Hudson's school work

Hudson has been doing some wonderful work at school that he is SO proud of! 

It all started in late September with a story he wrote for me at home. It was a suggested topic on the back of one of his papers, but not an activity required of him at school. He didn't really want to do it, but once he got started, he liked it. He did a fabulous job! It said:

"I wint huting will my Dad and we sot a deer

we at the deer and it was dlishish."

My favorite part = "dlishish"... what a creative way to spell delicious!

Below is another story he's written with some spelling/sight words...

Just in case it's hard to read in a picture, it says:

"I catch the ball. And i put the ball on the tuch down. But no bode ("else" we added when we re-read it together) skord a tuch down. I want to do a good job."

This is his seed collection he put together for school. Some we found around here, a few we traded out with our neighbor, and some came from Cacki & Papa. Thanks, everyone for the help! He was very proud of this work, too. He couldn't wait to show it at school.

Keep up the good work, Hudson! We are so very proud of you!

Busy, but FUN Weekend!

Every weekend seems to be busy around here lately, but this one was SUPER busy! Fun, nonetheless... Lots of good, family time :) We had two baseball games & a yard sale yesterday. Late in the day, we took Cade & Callie (Hudson was visiting a friend) to see "The Lion King". They LOVED it!! So glad it came out for a limited time on the big screen... in 3D, too. Very cool. Then, this evening, we ventured out to the "Disney on Ice" show at FedEx Forum. We figured the kids would enjoy it, but weren't exactly sure what to expect since this is our first "Disney on Ice" show. The pictures aren't great (taken with my phone), but I think you can tell the kids had a BLAST!

Here are the boys "posing" before the show. We knew Cade would like the show (where animals are involved, he's always good to go :), but we weren't sure if Hudson would think it was "cool" enough for an almost-seven-year-old. It was... He liked it :)

 Callie was mesmerized. She loved every minute of the show. And when the show took a break, she wanted to know where it went :) By the last performance, she was dancing in the aisles! She danced & sang all the way out to the parking garage!

 Check them out... totally zoned :)

Thanks, Howie's friend, for the complimentary tickets! It was a wonderful family night out!

Furniture

Our new piece of furniture... Love it!

Fall baseball - Cade

Here's our Cade-o playing Fall baseball this year. This is his first team without big brother, Hudson, on the same team. Cade's a fickle, little baseball player... ha! When he's on, he's on! When he doesn't care, well, it can be difficult to get a good effort out of him. (Works on his Daddy's/coach's patience out there on the field!)

Here's our little man making a good hit!

Hanging out at 1st...

... and 2nd...

... and making a good run around 3rd and on to home...

Go, Cade!

Playing the field is a little less exciting :), but he is a valuable player when he tries.

We're very proud of you, Cade! Way to go this season, buddy!

Baby Sail

Got to see & hold sweet baby Sail today... such a cutie!

2 Year Stats

Callie went to the pediatrician today for her 2-year check-up. As usual, the nurse takes all her stats (height, weight, etc.) as we go in, and marks her chart for the doctor to review. As she's marking Callie's height, she says, "that can't be right. I'd better measure her again." I commented that we'd measured her at home and got the same thing. We could just tell, by how fast she'd been growing out of her clothes in the past few months, that she'd had a pretty big growth spurt. The nurse re-measured, came up with the same thing, and seemed nervous about leaving it "as is", because it just didn't fit Callie's growth curve. When the doctor came in, she said "Woah! Somebody's been growing!" Yep... Callie's measurements were correct. Yes, she's really jumped up the curve in height & weight, but it is proportional. The rest of her check-up was good, too. Her iron was out of this world for a child her age, but, then again, Callie does like her meat! Vegetables & fruit are another story. We try every way we can to get her to eat those :) 

From her 18-month to 24-month check-up, Callie has gained 5 pounds AND grown 5 inches!

She jumped from 25th-50th percentile in height & weight, to 75th-90th! You go, Callie-girl!

24-month stats:

Weight = 29.5 lbs

Height = 36 inches

 Callie in camo :)

Happy 12th Anniversary!

Today is our 12th anniversary. Hudson, being the sweet firstborn that he is :), wanted to get us gifts for our anniversary... so his Gran took him shopping.
He was so excited about giving us our gifts. Here he is giving Howie a new wallet. He couldn't wait for his Daddy to get it open.

These are the flowers he had sent to me as my gift. Bless his sweet, little heart, every time he's at the grocery store with me he wants to buy me flowers. He finally got to do it :)

And Hudson took a picture of us on our anniversary. He did a good job, even with the "big" camera!

Happy 12th Anniversary, Howie! 
I love our life, I love our family, I love you dearly! 
I wouldn't change a thing about our 12 married years together :)