We went to our first Christmas party over the weekend and it was Hudson's first meeting with Santa since last Christmas when he refused to even look at him. This year, he was reluctant to get too near him, but he knew that Santa had a present to give him, so he sat on his lap, but wouldn't look at him! After I picked him up off of Santa's lap, we did convince him to give Santa knuckles! But if you ask him, he'll tell you that he sat on Santa's lap like a big boy!

He's starting to get into some of the animated movies, so we watch a lot of The Jungle Book and he also likes the donkey movie (Shrek). He knows the Junge Book well enough to sing along to the songs, and he actually talks along with Baloo the Bear in some parts. He's been singing Jingle Bells lately, and it's pretty comical. His version goes Jingle bells, jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to ride HEY! So he's missing some parts, but that's ok! He's still as active as ever, running around the house playing "soccer ball" and throwing any type of ball he can find laying around. It's a good thing we have a basement, or I don't know what we'd do with him this winter. We went to corydon to visit Jesse's sisters last weekend and Jen took some pictures for us, and we laughed afterwards about how he's in motion in every shot. He's never sitting still.

Below are some pictures of him with santa, making cookies at mom and dad's and one of him with Uncle johnny's football helmet on. He wore that around Jonathan's house the night before Thanksgiving when we were over there visiting.