Jude in a Box

 

Hi everyone!

Chocolate? What is this?

Yep. I let Jude lick the spoon after I spread the chocolate on the candy I was making. He loved it, obviously.

Merry Christmas!

Jude’s 1st Birthday Party (November 8, 2008)

Unfortunately, Jude’s birthday party didn’t go quite as we planned. He broke out in hives and by 2pm Saturday, his left eye was almost completely swollen shut. Poor little fella’. So we cancelled with as many people as we could, not really knowing how he would be feeling once the party got going. A few people arrived before we took Jude to urgent care: my mom, sisters, dad, a neighbor, our two good friends from Pullman, and a friend from church. We were expecting about 30 people in all and we were so excited to see everyone of ‘em. If I can get the video to download of Jude eating his cake, you’ll see he was a bit out of it and slightly overwhelmed. That darn Benadryl… Anyway, we ended up with a ton of leftover cake and thankfully, Jude’s hives were almost completely down by bedtime. We sure missed seeing our family though. We’re looking forward to Christmas when we can see everybody, all together.

…rough day…

…at the hospital…

…a little out of it, but still loving the chocolate cake…

…opening fun presents…

…relaxing after a long day of partyin’, cryin’, and rashin’…

…mesmerized by the music…

…our dear friends, Karl and Daniel…

Jude’s Big Birthday Present from Mom and Dad

We bought Jude a ukelele for his birthday. It came a couple days after his birthday though, not that he noticed. I started playing the guitar recently. It’s an old, pretty banged up guitar, but once I started lessons a few weeks ago, we fixed it up, put new strings on. Anyway, before we did that, we would put the guitar on the floor and let Jude play with it. He LOVES strumming it and loves it when we play for him. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to take out my guitar once we fixed it up because Jude would go crazy and want to play with it. (He’s a little hard on it, being a little guy and all.) The ukelele is his baby version of our guitar. It’s been his favorite toy for a week now. You should see how he strums it. Like a pro. 

Jude on His 1st Birthday (November 5, 2008)

Jude’s First Halloween as Sheriff of the Wild West

Halloween’s never been so fun….

We just walked in the kitchen, and there he was. He’s Standing all the time now.

Hello!