Baby's First Christmas!

We had a great Christmas morning at Casa de James!! I think Hudson was a little excited for Santa, he was up at 1:00am and 5:00am, but it's ok for this one morning!!! I woke up early (obviously) and made breakfast for us, and Uncle Trey came over to join us. He got to the house just in time to get Hudson out of bed and take him to the tree to see his gifts. Hudson entertained himself so we could eat breakfast, then he got to eat and then it was time for PRESENTS!!!

Trying to get his Peek-a-boo Bunny!

Who would wrap a present for a baby?!?

Awww, daddy, now is not the time for pictures - come help me!

Now I got it!

Mmmm - bunny tastes yummy!

One happy baby on Christmas morning!

Got a signed baseball from our neighbor

So happy my Uncle Trey came to visit me

Best Christmas ever!

All of us with mo-mo Sarah

So presh!

After presents at our house and a visit to see mo-mo Sarah, we went to my parents' house and had Christmas over there. We had a nice turkey lunch then sat down for presents.

Someone was a little eager to get to the presents...

"Hey people, I"m opening presents!"

All pooped out after opening presents!

Playing with my new toy from Uncle Trey

And my Baby Neptune (also from Uncle Trey)

LOVE those baby blues!

Hudson's first Christmas was perfect, from spending time in Bridge City to the final hours here in Bryan. I can't wait until next year, when he might actually realize what's going on.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas Craft

Thanks to Pinterest we made something for the grandparents, aunt and uncles. Since everyone has theirs now, I can post a photo of it!

Yea, the fingers do look a little funny but it's hard to keep a 5 month old's fingers still!!!

Christmas in Bridge City

We made a quick trip to Bridge City to celebrate Christmas with Jason's family. It was a short, but very good trip!

Gettin' some lovin' from my cousin Brianna

And some Granny lovin'

Trying to show off my new toofies with Nana

Opening my present from cousins Kevin & Erin

I had some fun here!

Our new "J" for our house :)

Jason got some matching knives made out of an old set of horns from their Paw Paw, they were pretty excited about them

Sitting in a high chair like a big boy!

"Just one lil' taste mommy!"

All the grandkids

The James family photo

I'm SUPER excited about my new Cricut machine!!!

Jason and his dad with their new golf shirts

Lovin' my sweet lil' family

I love this...he's just so mesmerized by her

It was a great weekend, quick, but we thoroughly enjoyed the time down in the BIG city of Bridge City. We noticed your second tooth has cut through the gums...oh yay! 

Little stinker!

We went to Bridge City this past weekend for Christmas and we had to make a stop to nurse/change diaper/bathroom breaks...well I got in the back seat and unbuckled Hudson, turned to do something and turned back to a very inquisitive lil' man...

Can you tell we liked to sleep on our back?!?!

You can't help but smile at that sweet lil' face!

We have teeth!!!

We have tried and tried to get a good picture of them but we have our first tooth! The first one finally cut through tonight, did the spoon test to hear it, and a very fussy baby! I'm hoping the second one comes in soon, I don't know how long we can take of this fussiness!!

I sit up like a BIG BOY mommy!

Where has the time gone?!!? He's starting to sit better and better...still leans forward a little bit but getting better each and every day!

Santa's Wonderland

YAY Hudson got to experience Santa's Wonderland! We had lots of fun, it was law enforcement appreciation night so there were a lot of other officers and their kids there.

Our official first Santa picture

"Here Santa, let me have a tug"

I don't know how two parents with brown eyes can produce a child with beautiful blue eyes!

He's just so stinkin' cute!!

We enjoyed the hay ride, too bad Santa's Wonderland is backwards in the background

Sweet moments like this just melt my heart!

And we were just about done...he was sooo sleepy

It was a fun night, poor Hudson was so tired though, he was asleep before we even made it back to the car and I barely had to feed him and he slept all night long! YAY for my big boy!

I fought my toy...

And my toy won...check out my "black eye" (his right eye)

Still just the happiest baby ever...now when he hit his eye he was not a happy camper...in fact he SCREAMED!!!

Christmas Parade downtown

Downtown Bryan had a Christmas Parade of their own, it was kinda ghetto...yes ghetto...the majority of the parade was the "lowriders club" of the area, but really all it was were kids needing a reason to ride down the street with their radios blaring! Ugh...don't get me started...and I came from the "ghetto school" as my husband loves to remind me :)

It was cold...we were bundled up!

Me and daddy with the fire truck

(a little hard to see)

Me and daddy!

Daddy hardly gets to see Hudson in the mornings...he wakes up for a 6am feeding and daddy is usually either already gone for work or still sleeping. So...Daddy came home to visit me this morning!!

Oh my goodness...

So Hudson can scoot himself all the way to the edge of his crib, gets his legs through the rails and then falls asleep just like so...

That's the monitor on the edge of the crib...obviously I woke up and he wasn't on the camera and I freaked out...now I know why!

My poor baby :(

Yea we had our first ear infection. It started as a runny nose and bad cough after Thanksgiving (which was diagnosed at bronchitis), had breathing treatments for that, but then it developed into an ear infection within a few days. So this is our sweet angel, it's kinda dark but you get the idea...he wasn't a fan of the breathing treatments but he toughed them out!

We've not been on the breathing treatments and antibiotics for about a week, he is starting to get a little better, so hopefully he will back to his smiling self in no time!!