Since I completely missed Hudson's 5 month blog post I'm just going to skip ahead, he'll be 6 months next week anyway. It really is amazing how fast he's growing up and into his own little personality every day. He's now mastered sitting up on his own and prefers that to laying on his stomach or back at this point. He's trying REALLY hard to figure out how to get his knees underneath him to crawl. I guess it's time to get some baby gates up sooner than later! I gave him rice cereal for the first time about 2 weeks ago, he absolutely hated it. I tried it with milk, with water, warm, room temperature, with bananas, he was having no part of it. I decided one day to give him just a plain mashed up banana with some milk and he was much happier with that. Now I give him a fruit of some sort every evening and he has loved everything so far, even sweet potatoes. I feel like we aren't going to have much of a problem with him being a good eater :)
He's still going to sleep every night by 7:30 and wakes up between 7-7:30. If we're really lucky we get an 8 every once and a while! I've tried pushing him to stay awake later at night but he turns into a little gremlin if I push him too far so I don't even try anymore.
I continue to wish I could know what he's thinking. He seems like a really happy little man but he could always just be laughing at how incredibly goofy his mom and dad are! Missi has really caught his attention in the last month or so and he loves to watch her. I don't think the feelings are quite mutual yet. She does love him but not so much the chunks of hair he keeps pulling out of her. Poor girl!
We took him on his first road trip this past weekend to see my grandparents. I was a little nervous for the car ride and how he would sleep at night but he did so good! He slept the whole way there and back in the car and just like he would have at home at night. It was a much needed little retreat to visit with them. They used to live just a few minutes away from us when we were younger but moved to KY 10 years ago. There's many times I wish they still lived right down the street but it does make our little visits more special! Hudson was quite smitten with both of them, he definitely wasn't lacking for attention over the last 48 hours :)
I don't know of anyone that has been able to get him to sit this still for so long!
Let me end by just saying thank you. After my last blog post (2 months ago) I had so many of you reach out to us about Hudson's hearing situation. It's nice to have so many family and friends that care about us and our little family. Right now things are still really up in the air. We have several upcoming appointments that will hopefully help to clear our foggy minds. But, for now, thank you for your kind words of encouragement!
