6 months, half way to having a 1 year old.

Hudson turned 6 months old on Dec.3rd. He has now had many different foods such as carrots, butternut squash, yogurt, oatmeal, apple, peaches, pears, chicken, green beans, lentils and peas to name a few! He has gotten eating down pretty well and you can see him imitating chewing. Also you better be ready because this is the reaction you now get when offering a bite! lol

Making baby food has also become a pretty fun hobby. I actually enjoy getting everything together and spending an afternoon making lots of new foods for him to try. Here is a pic when I had made the peas. From everything I have read it says peas are hard to make because of the skins, but with using a strainer they werent as bad as I was preparing myself for. Just threw them all in my steamer, then once they were soft, I mashed them through a strainer then mixed them with a blender and a little breast milk till they were the consistency i wanted!

Here he is enjoying some carrots. Another food I am happy that he enjoys, now I just hope that he still likes all of these when he is older.

 

When we took Hudson to his 6month check up we were happy to find out that at his next visit he will have no shots! It's always so hard watching this, although he did get over it faster at this visit compared to the last two. Our boy now weighs 14.9lbs and 26inches long. Doc calls him our peanut because he measures in the 4th percentile! Hudson still has his daddies noggin as it's in the 82nd percentile! He has really been trying to figure out how to crawl and gets up on all four while rocking back and forth. I feel like it will be any day now. He sits up for the longest by himself, but still hasn't figured out how to get to sitting up so for now we are still sitting him up. This month we also had his 6 month pics and I'm even more in love now that he is sitting up and jabbering with us. Each session he continues to get more fun and can't wait to see what he is doing by 9months!!

This month also meant Christmas... So We had Hudson's first Christmas!! We spent Christmas Eve with my (Margaret) side of the family at Ryan and Hopes house and then Christmas morning was a little different since we are staying at my parents house.. Mark and I started the morning by exchanging presents and opening Hudsons presents then when everyone else showed up we had breakfast with my mom, dad, Ryan, hope, all the babies, uncle Paul and my grandmother!  Then we exchanged presents with the rest of the family. Here is a pic of all the presents under the tree.

Once we all finished eating and opening presents it was time to get ready and head on out to Marks moms house to have Christmas with his side of the family. 

Again we ate, played dirty Santa, and all the kids opened their presents. Overall it was a great day and we have many blessing to be thankful for.

Here is Hudson wore out the day after Christmas!

5 months, FOOD!!

5 Months old!! Wow.. makes us happy to see him growing and changing but sad to know that before we turn around he will be starting kindergarten. Five months has brought some fun new milestones for Hudson. We have officially started him on baby food! I have decided to make all of it since it saves money, plus we know what he is getting! First we started with Avacado! Here he is in the bumbo on the first day!

At first I wasn't to sure if he liked it but by day two  it was obvious that he did! We decided to wait till he was about 5 and 1/2 months old before starting food since talking with his doctor and with what I read. I had at first thought I would wait till he was 6 months but with seeing how interested he was in us eating and how good he was doing with sitting up, we decided to give it a try a little early (plus we were excited to start a new milestone with Hudson) :) each new food we introduce we wait between 3-4 days to see if Hudson has any kind of reaction before going to the next. After 4 days of avacado we went on to sweet potatoes! These were an even bigger hit! Hudson gobbled them all up and by now he is opening up his mouth and leaning forward toward the spoon! Next, bananas, and no issues there as well! So then we were on to butternut squash and cereal! Each again haven't been an issue and Hudson seemed to enjoy! 

My sweet boy is definitely turning out to be a good eater!!

 Hudson has also gotten good at sitting up, and would rather be sitting up than laying down whenever you are holding him. He enjoys reading books, playing patty cake, and peek a boo. He also loves in the mornings when Mark and I will sing "Good Morning to you" to him and he will just talk and giggle the whole time!

 Also this happened... He has an interest in the Ipad whenever we are on it, so I have downloaded some games that he enjoys "playing".

5 months old also meant the month for Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving we got together with all of the family, and while Hudson didn't get to enjoy all of the yummy food, I had steamed pumpkin for him and he loved it.