White Christmas in Seattle

It's Christmas morning and as we sit here posting entries onto our blog it is once again snowing. After twelve years of living in Seattle, we finally have a White Christmas. With that said, the majority of us cannot wait for the snow to go away and return to the rainy, warmer temperatures were accustomed to.

On Christmas Eve, Hudson made chocolate cookies for Santa. On Christmas morning, Hudson was surprised to see that one cookie was missing another had a giant bite out of it and the cup of milk was empty.

Hudson says "It's kitchen stuff"

Snow in Seattle - 6-9 inches

Sleepless Nights

As most of you know, Peter can sleep through just about anything. After I came home from the hospital, Hudson starting having nightmares, screaming for what felt like hours until we gave in and brought him into our bed. Peter and I have not had much sleep for months...it was getting so bad that we did not even notice Hudson waking up and somehow ending up in our bed. Peter thought that Hudson just crawled in between us from the bottom of the bed. I joke that Hudson probably crawled over the top of Peter, but Peter felt that he would surely know if that was the case. Then one night about a week later I woke up from Hudson crying and I heard his little feet pounding on the floor heading to our room. I decided not to make any noise and see how he was getting into our bed. He ran right over to Peter's side and began to crawl up and over the top of Peter. He struggled for a little while and then found it easier if he used Peter's head as leverage. Hudson then seemed to be stuck on top of Peter's head. I couldn't help myself and started to laugh. I eventually helped Hudson off of Peter's head and into our bed. Hudson nearly smothered Peter and yet Peter never even budged.

Chanukkah

Hudson, Cohen and I were eating dinner tonight. As we neared the end of dinner, Hudson was looking over at the kitchen counter repeatedly. I asked him what he wanted and he said "I want my chanukkah". I said "what"? and he repeated, "I want my chanukkah". I looked over at the counter and noticed that his harmonica was on the counter! I told him that Chanukkah was a holiday and that yes, he could have his harmonica. Now we know for sure that he is getting something from the school, as they have been talking about Chanukkah for the past week!

New Box

We bought Hudson a play kitchen for Christmas this year. After searching for many months we finally broke down and bought the one we really wanted at Pottery Barn kids. Traci and Hudson went to pick it up at the store on Sunday night. They came back to the house and I unloaded the box from the car and brought it into the house. When I went back out to park the car, Hudson turned to Traci and exclaimed "Mommy we got a new box!".