Nine Months

Hudson is 9 months old!  His 9 month-day fell on a Friday the 13th---his third one now, the first one being the day he was born!!  This month Hudson has truly mastered the art of crawling---he has gotten FAST!  He also pulls up to standing on anything he can get his hands on.  He loves the remote control, toy phones, and just about anything that lights up, plays music. and/or makes noise!  He loves splashing in the bath, being tickled (especially on his belly), and Mumma's singing (bless his little heart).  He definitely shows a preference for Mom over all others, and still thinks Macy is hilarious.  He gives Daddy some good snuggles too.  We are still hanging at 2 teeth, and he still loves eating, and has become quite independent with finger foods.  He also claps when he gets excited or we say "yay!" and just this week started playing peek a boo with us!
Here are some 9 month photos of our sweet boy:

Happy Halloween!!

We love Halloween in the Polega house!  I have always liked Halloween and it has really become Macy's favorite holiday!  We had lots of fun introducing Hudson to one of our favorite holidays this year.

Annual pumpkin picking at the Mausolf's!

Happy 1st Halloween, Hudson!  The cutest little tooth on the block!

The Tooth Fairy and her Tooth!

We had a great Halloween and another successful year of costumes!  When Macy was a baby I always cherished the years when I got to pick her costume because I figured once she was old enough she would probably just want to be some type of cliche princess every year.  Little did I know that she would come up with better costume ideas than I ever could!  The tooth fairy/tooth idea was all hers.  I just love her creativity!

Crazy House Project #3 (the craziest one yet)

In our 10 years together (7 married), TJ and I have lived in 3 different houses.  Our first house (which was originally just TJ's house, but I was in the picture from the beginning) was our house in Highland, which was a major renovation project which TJ did all of the work on himself (along with lots of help from his brother Brian who lived there for a while and lots of other family members and friends).  When we moved out of our Highland house and to Port Austin a little over 3 years ago, we decided to rent as the housing market there was still pretty dismal.  We decided this year to sell, and said goodbye for good to our first home together when we officially closed in mid-October.  We got married there and had Macy there.  We also had some really special neighbors that we now consider family there.  It was a little sad to say goodbye, but we did sell the house to a young couple, so we hope they can make some wonderful memories there in the same way we did.

Our First Home

Next, we were off to Port Austin.  We moved into our "cottage," a house we originally bought when we finally settled on the fact that moving "back home" wasn't going to happen and we were destined to stay in the metro Detroit area.  Surprise, a little over a year later, we made it work to move to Port Austin.  So, the house we had there worked for a cottage but definitely needed a makeover to be our full time home.  On to house project number 2.

Our Second Home

We planned to be in this house for a while, but as we have learned, things rarely go as planned, and a house that fit our needs and our budget on the lake became available that we could not pass up.  Onto our third home in May 2014.  We had to redo some flooring and do some painting (and a small wall removal) but this was by far the most move-in ready house we ever purchased.

Our third home (our forever home....that's the most current plan anyway)!

Right after moving into this house we found out we were pregnant with Hudson.  When our little anti-sleeper arrived in February, we realized that a 2 bedroom house just wasn't going to cut it.  Thus the third major house renovation project was born (the most extensive project of them all).  We are adding on a second story that will include 3 new bedrooms and 2 new bathrooms and more storage space.  It's going to be amazing to live in a house that we actually fit in for the first time (for now, anyway!)  Our awesome neighbors, the Flanagans offered to let us stay in their house next door for the winter while they are back in Florida so we get a nice view of the project.  It has just begun but it's exciting to come home each day and see the progress!  We are hoping to be back in by mid-April, early May at the latest!!

8 Crazy Months

This post is a little late...but Hudson is 8 months old!  At 8 months Hudson is full out crawling everywhere, climbing on everything, and pulling up to standing on anything he can get ahold of.  He looooooves eating table food and still looooves nursing.  He loves his Mumma, Daddy, and Macy but Mumma and Macy are still his favorites.  He thinks his sister is pretty much the funniest person on the planet.  Favorite toys of the moment are the remote control and his little walk behind baby toy that plays music.  Favorite foods are holding out to be sweet potatoes and squash.  If we aren't careful he might start turning orange!!!

Lucky to get this one...it is near impossible to get him to sit still as the next photos will show!