8 months and pumpkins

Hudson at 8 months:

- He is over 18lbs

- crawls all over the house, just this week he started coming to find me in other rooms!

- has two top teeth working their way in

- throws his "Nuk" when he doesn't want it anymore

- goes from crawling position to sitting on his own

- entertains himself

- pulls up to his knees

- will move to "big boy" baby room on Monday at daycare!

Life around her has been pretty busy the past month.  After the last post, Hudson stayed pretty healthy for a while until this past week.  But, now he is fighting his first ear infection and two new teeth and now has quite the rash from his antibiotics. Yay fun as a parent... (please notice the sarcasm) He's decided sleeping is overrated and fights us nightly on it.

But, last night, as I sat crying while he cried for two hours straight, all I could think of was the song, "I'll praise you in this storm".  I tried to let him cry it out, but that didn't work. So, instead of crying, we rocked and sang (and rocked and sang).







I am blessed. I have an amazing husband who, even though he has random brain farts, is an amazing dad who is trying to figure this out with me daily. We, together have an awesome kid. Sure, the past ten days have been TOUGH, but he smiles at us and shows us God in every day. Right now as I type, he is making a disaster out of our office and loving every minute of it.  He is teaching me to see the beauty in small things... like a pile of paper.

If I know anything that I've learned in the last year and a half it is that everything works better in God's timing.  October always holds a special place in my heart and probably always will.
I'm grateful for taking my 8 month old to the pumpkin patch and there's even peace in doing it after only getting a few hours of sleep for the 10th night in a row.