Happy New Year!!!

2010 has been an awesome year for the Elliott family. Some of the highlights include:

Celebrating our 1 year wedding anniversary
Giving birth to our son Hudson Ray
Witnessing Jessie marry the man of her dreams (we love you Brandon and your family)
Selling my car.....goodbye Eclipse
Buying a new car......hello Endeavor SUV
Selling Jeremy's first home on Portland Street
Buying our first home together in Battlefield, MO
Witnessing my good friend Amanda Dempsey marry Aaron Pearson and Amanda get her new job at Cowden as a special education teacher
Celebrating the births of many friend's babies......Emma Holstein (Maria/Josh), Braelyn York (Kailey/Michael), Eva Davied (Laura/Aaron), Cannon Massey (Casey/Matthew), Jackson Butrick (Alysia/Curtis), and Jasper Kimmons(Melissa/Billy)
Celebrated the engagement of my best friend Megan Westrich to Blake Pinkerton
Celebrated both of my parent's 50th birthdays
Celebrated mom's 2nd retirment to watch Hudson full-time (you are such a blessing mom)
Getting to see ALL of Jeremy's family for Thanksgiving

These are just a few of the highlights. Thankful for all of the blessings this year and praying 2011 will be just as great.

Our new place is.....

well wonderful. We love it so much and are finally getting settled in. I still have about 5 boxes to open and put away. Addie loves her new backyard and we love all of the extra space we now have. We have wonderful neighbors and a quiet neighborhood that will be perfect to raise our son in. We look forwarding to having all of our family and friends into our home soon.

May each of you have a wonderful holiday!!

4 month shots and a new home

Hudson has his 4 month checkup and shots on Wednesday. He weighed 19.2 lbs and was 25 and 1/4 inches long. 95th in weight and 50th percentile in length. He is a growing boy. This week he learned to completely roll himself over on his own from his back to his tummy and he has cut two of his bottom front teeth. He did well with his shots. They didn't make him overly fussy which was nice. He is growing and changing everyday. He is very vocal and loves to smile and talk to anyone that will listen. We feel so blessed by our sweet boy!!

We are moving into our new home today. We close at 1pm and will do most of the moving today because Saturday is suppose to be very cold and rainy....not good moving weather! We have appreciated the time at my parents so much and they have been so helpful with providing extra care to Hudson, meals, groceries, and doing our laundry each day. Thank you mom and dad!!! BUT we are super excited to have our own place that we can call home and that Hudson will grow up in. I will post pictures of the house once we get moved in.

First Cold

Hudson is sick for the first time in his life.....I am glad he waited to do it until he was 4 months old. We were suppose to have his 4 month checkup and shots on Tuesday but that didn't happen. We have rescheduled for this coming Wednesday.

Hudson has had a stuffy nose and a cough for the past 3 or 4 days. Mommy, daddy, and Mimi all have a little bit of a cold now too thanks to our little guy.

He has been pretty good considering he doesn't feel well. He has just been a tad bit more fussy during the day and not sleeping as well at night. I think he is on the mend though after saline drops in his nose and a humidifer in his room to help him feel better.

We are looking forward to him getting back to his old self where he is smiley and talkative. I know this is just one of many times that Hudson will be sick, but I hate it for him because I feel so helpless!

Move 1

We have officially moved out of our house on Portland Street. It has been a great house for Jeremy for the past 4 years, me for the past 2 years or so, and a good 3 months for Hudson. It is the first house we lived in as a married couple but it was ultimately Jeremy's house so we are excited to have our new home shortly.

We are temporarily living with my parents for the next 3.5 weeks......thank you mom and dad for letting us be a burden on you and Sophie girl. We feel so blessed to have a nice place to stay while we wait to close on our house.

We will post pictures of the new place once we have moved in. The big day is December 10th!!

Not feeling so good

On Monday night, Hudson got Jeremy and I up more than normal. He went to bed at 830pm and got up at midnight which was only 3.5 hours of sleep. He typically sleeps 5-6 hours then wakes up to eat but we didn't think much about it. Then he woke again at 4am and ate and was still fussy and upset. Jerm stayed up with him and I tried to go back to sleep but that didn't really happen.

Then Tuesday my mom said he was a little fussy in the morning but took a 2 hr nap so I thought he was probably just tired. In the afternoon when work was almost over, my mom called saying Hudson had been crying for an hour and a half and wouldn't take a bottle. She got a doctor's appointment and off we went. The doctor checked his ears, in his mouth, and asked us about his reflux. Come to find out......his reflux has gotten worse because he is bigger and we hadn't increased his medicine YET.

We got a new refill for his reflux medicine and he slept great last night. We are hoping this helps his tummy, and throat. It makes since that he didn't want to eat, suck on his paci, or lay flat on his back when his throat was probably on fire.....poor guy! He was talking up a storm this morning and happy as can be. I am sure glad he is feeling better.

MSU Football Game

Just a few pictures from the football game.......Hudson loves being outside!!