Two Months Old!

At 2 months old, Hudson weighs in at:

11.1 pounds (36th %ile)

23.5 inches (73rd %ile)

  

 My Hudson. If there is one word I would use to describe you, it would be “accommodating.” You seem to know just what is going on around you and when it might be appropriate to eat or sleep or cry or be happy. You eat every 4 hours, EXCEPT in the mornings when you are due to eat exactly when we are picking Mara up from kindergarten. Somehow, someway, you always wait patiently until we get home before you start fussing for food. Even if we stay and play on the playground until 12. You just adjust your plans to fit ours.

You seem to sleep or at least be content through all the right things (sacrament meeting, while I’m making lunch or dinner, while I’m getting everyone’s coats and shoes on, etc). You seem to want to eat at all the right times. You also rarely spit up or have blow outs. I can keep you in the same outfit for days. You have only urinated all over the place during a diaper change once (Judah was EVERY time). You take a bottle with no push back. You just know how to be a helpful, accommodating baby. And I am grateful for it.

 

You could sleep better. You could also sleep worse. You only eat once through the night, but you are up every few hours grunting and pushing out gas. Your digestive system really does not seem to be taking well to this whole processing food thing. And your body definitely does not like formula. You scream and push and grunt. It’s sad and I feel helpless but I have taken to simply bringing you into bed with me. You do much better with the tummy troubles if I am cuddling you. I don’t mind. J   In fact, I fall asleep grinning when I have you in my arms.

 

Here is a small journal excerpt: “Hudson is just a dream. It is so fun having a newborn in the house. Every time I get to hold him, I just try to drink in his smell and the feel of him on my shoulder and relish every minute. I know I won’t remember exactly what it’s like to have a baby at home because I don’t remember my other kids, but I am trying to enjoy each moment now with him. He is already getting so big, but I just try to be grateful that he is still as small as he is. I love his smell and his soft hair and skin. I love the weight of his head on my shoulder. I love nestling him in my neck. Every morning about 5:30 he starts crying and I pull him into bed with me and just cuddle him for the next hour and a half. I don’t get much sleep but I’m so happy with him there by me. He is heaven. I love him to pieces.”

Blessed

You were blessed on December 14, 2014 at 4:00 PM in our home. It was our stake conference that day but we blessed you that day anyway, in our home, because Gramsy and Bampa were visiting for the holidays from their mission in Germany. It was so beautiful. Our best baby blessing yet. The spirit in our home, with all those people who love you packed into one small living room, was palpable.

 

Grandma Great, Gramsy and Bampa, Uncle Spencer and his six kids, Uncle Jackson and Aunt Katie, and their twin boys, Mom, Dad, Mara, Judah, Baylor, Uncle Dave and Aunt Debbie and their 3 kids, Uncle Kevin and Aunt Ashley and their 3 kids, Uncle Dan and Aunt Jamie and their 4 kids, Uncle Todd and Aunt Alli and Lyla, Bishop Russon and his counselor Mark Clawson, and our next door neighbors Greg and Trell Dohm were all there to support you. The Dohms aren’t LDS, and we have invited them to two other baby blessings, but this is the first one they have actually come to. Probably because we had it in our home. The spirit really was strong, and both Greg and Trell teared up during the blessing. Afterward they thanked us profusely for including them and said how special they felt. They even took us to breakfast the next weekend because they suddenly felt so close to us! You are already a little missionary. 

 

 

It really was a special event. I love that Bampa was there since he is your namesake. You are a special and well-loved little guy.