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As a kid Halloween was always one of my favorite Holidays. When I was little I would ask my mom to tell me "spooooky" stories at bedtime, I loved Casper, I loved my older brother Ryan telling me the scary story of the old lady making soup with a...bone! Shriek!

Halloween is still one of my favorites! I love fall, pumpkins, and costumes. It is just as fun being a mom on Halloween.  This year Hudson learned what Halloween really consists of, and excitedly took part in all the classic activities.   All month long he told me he "wanted Halloween!' He was a cowboy, and the weeks before Halloween he would put on his little cowboy hat and ride around on his bike.

This fall has been extra amazing this year.  The past few years fall has felt kind of non-existent and once October rolled around I just started dreading the cold months approaching way too fast.  This year I relished every little thing about fall I love.  Hudson and I went on bike rides/walks up the canyon and watched the leaves changing color.  We crunched dry leaves on the sidewalk every chance we got.  I tried to show him how amazing pumpkin flavored hot chocolate is, but he doesn't get that yet, why would a drink be hot?

This year our Halloween consisted of the classic Halloween church party, where I spent a ridiculous amount of time making Chicken Gnocchi soup to bring, and it one second place, which I felt pretty good about, but I'm still not sure the hours of cooking was worth having the giant pot being gone so fast.  Hudson ran around stage posing for everyone in the costume parade and helped me further realize that his little two year old self is the opposite of my two year old self.

Another belated post, because of course!

My sweet little guy has turned two! Ah! I feel like the past two years have gone by in the blink of an eye, but at the same time I can't remember life before I had Hudson in my life!
I am so grateful and blessed to be this little toddler's Mommy.  He is just the best.
In honor of Hudson officially becoming a toddler, I would love to share some of my favorite things about him.

• He is so friendly.  The friendliest. Every new person is a friend and he can bring a smile to everyone face he meets.
• His singing & dancing.  He likes to strum the guitar or pound the piano and yell out and sing as loud as he can.  Today the song was about, "DADDY!!!"
• All the "delicious" food he "cooks" for me, all day long.
• His smile & his laugh.  Nothing can brighten my day like his squeels and giggles.
• His prayers, they are so cute! Bless Mommy, Daddy, Bee-pas, Be happy. Amen!
• His caring heart. He is always asking me "Are you okay? Okay!" Or, "Are you happy?" "Mommy happy!" For no reason at all.
• His independence.  Sometimes I am not sure that I love this, but most the time I love watching him try to do everything all be himself with such confidence.
• His curly hair, it is mostly poofy and crazy and always adorable.

I have always loved Halloween.  Fall time, costumes, and of course candy, what's not to love!?  It is fun to enjoy Halloween a little differently with a toddler and watch him enjoy himself, observing so many new things. We went to the trunk or treat in my parents neighborhood to let Hudson do a little trick or treating. 

I was impressed with how well he picked out candy!  I was expecting him to try and eat every piece he got, but was so good!  He would take his time and look for just what he wanted from the bowl, grab a hand full, and carefully put it in his bucket.

He did get a bit overwhelmed by all the costumes.  For some reason he would not let me or Jason hold him, only my mom, he cried every time she tried to let him walk, or we tried to hold him.  Maybe it was our cowboy hat "costumes" we had on?  But really, I don't think his Grandma was complaining at all.

The next morning I walked into the living room and realized I forgot to put his candy away, he had climbed onto the couch and was sorting through the candy. It was one of those moments where I felt like I was the mom of a boy and not a baby.

On the way to trick or treat we stopped at a park we took pictures at last week, which Hudson loved, to let him play a little, see him in his spooky pjs...

Yesterday, Hudson turned one.  I can't believe it!  This year has flown by, yet I can barely remember life before we had a baby.

I had all these cute ideas for Hudson's birthday party, but then the night before our printer ran out of ink, and Hudson's handmade cake completely crumbled apart while I was trying to frost it.  So I didn't finish all the decoration's i wanted to, and Hudson ended up with a store bought cake instead of homemade, but I don't think he minded.

We grilled some food, opened presents, and watch Hudson have his first destroy his cake.  Me and Jason tried to think of toys Hudson would love, and wouldn't drive us crazy all day. We decided on a set of toddler instruments (he looooves music!) and a shopping cart he could push around, (he loves to put things in containers!)  We chose right!  When we got home that night he pushed his new little toys around in his cart all over our condo.  The most he has ever walked! Even though he stayed up later than normal, at bedtime he was not having it!  He wanted that shopping cart!

And now so many pictures you will feel like you partied with us...

Thanks to everyone who came and celebrated with us.  We are so lucky to have such a happy baby boy.  Everyday he makes us laugh and smile with his hilarious personality.  We love you Hudsie!

Today we got our carpets cleaned.  And let me tell you, they reeaaally needed them, bad!  When we moved in the past tenants had "cleaned" them with a rented machine, but really just got them soaking wet.  So now they are clean and our feet won't turn black and the knees of hudson pants will stay a little cleaner.
Moral of the story, I am sitting on the couch in out kitchen with nothing to do, waiting for the carpets to dry.

Jason is at work, Hudson is asleep, and I am booored!

So let me tell you about my funny baby.
Can you believe he is almost one!?  Oh man, I can't!

• He loves to "talk on the phone". Or remote, or anything semi phone shaped.  He puts it to his ear and says "'lo?" "Hedo!" and jibber-jabbers away.
• The other day he found a bucket of coins in a cupboard and spilt them everywhere. So. Fun.  While I was putting them away, he helped me put them away, one by one.  Later he found a nickel we missed and I watched him crawl across the kitchen, open the cupboard, and look for the bucket to put the nickel away.
• He is very neat & organized.  He loves to put things away, and move things from once container to the next.  I find the remote in the diaper bag, random things in boxes, even a soap from our bedroom in the diaper bag in the front room.
• He likes to drink from cups, or bowls, or anything that slightly resembles a cup.  He tries to tilt it up and see if there is something he can drink inside.
• He won't let me feed him from a spoon.  We haven't ever been too big on just spoon feeding, but now he has to try himself, which can get pretty dang messy.
• He sometimes likes to make animal noises while reading books. Like "Cockadoodledoo!" or "Cockadododoo!" and "Meow", or "ow!", and "Mooooo!"

2012 was a pretty amazing year, for obvious reasons.  We welcomed our little baby boy Hudson into this world!