Flava Flave

Hudson is addicted to Fla-Vor-Ice pops. He has liked them for a while but now has a box a week habit. He requests them 2 at a time now. He even eats them in a certain color order. All the blues first, then green, purple, red, and then he mixes up the oranges and pinks. The other night as he was eating 2 purples I told Richard his new nickname was going to be Flava Flave. I guess he could have worse addictions!

P.S. I promise my next post will be about my other wonderful son, Chandler :)

The sweet minds of children

Kids say the funniest things sometimes and it's always interesting to listen to what they think about some things. Here is a conversation Hudson had with me and Richard the other day (paraphrased of course)

Hudson: Mommy, we need to have a baby sister so I'll have someone to marry.
Mommy: (Shocked) Hudson you can't marry your sister. You have to marry someone that's not in your family.
Hudson: But how will I meet her. She has to come to our house cause I can't drive.
Mommy: But, you will drive when you're older.
Hudson: No, I can't cause I don't know the way.

How funny is that?

We've had this discussion before about his not driving because he doesn't know the way. He asked me a couple of days later if he had a driver's license. I told him no and he asked if he could have his daddy's. I told him, no that he would have to get his own and he wanted to go to the store right then and buy one. So...I had to explain how that worked.

Hudson also has a breathing problem. Well, let's just say that he breathes really deep, and snores when he sleeps. When he was a baby and would fall asleep in church, people would turn around and think it was a grown up that had fallen asleep and was snoring. I was so used to his deep breathing while asleep, when I kept other kids and they didn't breathe like that, I couldn't tell without looking if they were asleep or not. Richard swears there's something wrong with him and he needs something removed but the dr says he's fine. The other morning, he got in our bed about 5 am and I could not go back to sleep with his snoring so I went and slept in his bed. Anyway, a lot of the time if we are playing a game and he's breathing real deep, we'll joke and say, Hudson, can I get one of those? (meaning a breath cause he's using all the air up) He also snorts at times. Especially when bowling on the Wii. He was in my bathroom and I thought he was getting a band aid so I asked him what he was doing and he said, getting one of those things for my nose (a breathe right strip) so I won't snort when I bowl. It was hilarious. Bless his heart.

Fishing

Richard has been wanting to join some fishing lakes for quite some time now but me being the spoiler that I am, always tell him no, that it's too much money, he won't go enough, blah, blah, blah. So, for Christmas, Richard's dad got Richard, Russell, and himself all a year membership to Foster Farm's fishing lakes in Marion. Richard was so excited! This past weekend, we all went to check them out. I don't see myself going much but I did go this time. It was a gorgeous day! I didn't really plan on fishing but I did and it was a lot of fun. We caught lots of brim with worms and Rickey caught a bass. Russell didn't catch anything but got lots of bites. Richard couldn't really do much fishing from having to get my, Hudson's and Chan's fish off when we caught them. Chandler finally started doing his own. When Hudson took a break from fishing, he enjoyed running (and falling) and playing with the worms. All boy! I know the boys are looking forward to many more trips. Thanks Rickey!

Finally some pictures!

Why do Christmas trees always look so much prettier in person than they do in pictures?
Hudson's daycare did a Christmas program a couple of weeks before Christmas and Caroline, Sydney and John Evan came to see it. Thanks guys! Hudson's class sang 3 songs and I was so proud of Hudson. He sang big and wasn't shy at all! They made these shirts and it's a Christmas tree made out of their hand prints. His teacher is so creative!
Here's the boys with Richard's parents. They love their grandkids!
Hudson's birthday party at school. Hudson wanted a Shrek party so the cupcakes had green sprinkles on them and we brought Shrek ears for everyone.

I was taking a picture of Hudson and his friend Hunter and this little girl, Alexis said I want to be in it! I don't know what happened with her smile...maybe she was trying too hard:)
When we left school, I took Hudson to Toy's R us to pick out a toy and Chuck E Cheese to play some games.
Hudson with his new bike. Yes, he always wears this hat and it's always backwards!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

2008...wow. My blogging efforts have really been sad these last couple of months. I am doing another post without pictures but I promise to update those soon. My camera kept messing up over Christmas so I probably don't have many good ones to share anyway. But, I still need to put some up of Hud's b'day and stuff. So...those will be coming. Hopefully next week.

We had a great Christmas. It just came and went too fast. I think the boys really got what they wanted. We had talked about getting them a Wii this year but then when we saw how hard it was to find them, we just weren't going to worry with it because it wasn't something they specifically asked for. About a week before Christmas, Richard was at the Wal-mart in Thomasville and they made an announcement that they had just gotten in a shipment. After an internal debate with himself, he bought one. They got in 30 that day and he bought the last one! I wish I had a picture of Chan's face when they opened it. He wasn't expecting it at all and was shocked. I did get it on video. I kept telling Richard that Hudson probably wouldn't care that much about it but let me tell you...he probably plays it more than anyone and kicks every one's butt in bowling. He has the high score right now of like 246. He gets strikes all the time and he's hilarious to watch they way he slings that controller around. He loves to play the baseball game, too. Chandler is excited about his guitar. Now I just need to find someone to give him lessons. We really enjoyed our time off work and school and spending time with family. Hudson's daycare was closed until yesterday. Thanks to Caroline, Juanita (Richard's mom) and my mom for helping keep him!

New Year's was fun, too. Chandler spent the night with a friend and Sydney spent the night with Hudson. We did some small fireworks and sparklers as soon as it got dark that night cause they were so excited and let me tell you, they are both some pyros! We caught a paper bag on fire and it scared me for a minute but it was minor. They loved it! Richard and I didn't even stay up to see the new year come in. How sad is that? Oh, well. That's what happens when you get old. Can't wait to see what fun and adventure this next year brings.