Hudson rocks Maine

I'm utterly discombobulated by my own new-ish small man (Wyeth, arr. 6/23/09) but have much Hudson news and photos to post.

Let's start with Lynn + Bill's record of the Maine week - PHOTOS here - 

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when cousins were introduced, blueberries picked, beaches trawled and stones skipped.

BTW - Hudson is a chatty charmer. Funny, playful, giddy, curious, crazy cute...

Love from a sleepy aunt

Mountain Man H

While we've been at our desks, grocery shopping and puttering in pocket gardens, Hudson's been fording small streams, communing with flora/fauna and chopping wood.



Very adorable in lumberjack coat and looking every inch a man raised to fell large trees, and then taken in 9 holes (renaissance that way).


Brand new ones from Hudson's recent trip to Colorado here.

Love to all + bleated happy memorial day/launch of summer and all good things.

xo
c

Sports man

Ever busy, ever out-there, ever supporting the home-town teams (Celtics could use his support) - here's Hudson at a recent Rangers game - deep in stickers and program, fan/mascot (?) in-the-making.



Love from northern aunt

c

Pinata Man of the Ladies

With adorable girlfriends Cecilia and Sisely, Hudson celebrated his 3rd in well-attended style. As far as I can make out, Hudson is the BMAP (big man at party) - showing pinata prowess, excellent capacity for mingling (dad + mom genes) and all-round good nature and handsomeness.

Jealous of his pinata, the remarkable birthday cakes (Texans do it up in icing - see Birthday #1 and cakes c/o Pam and Bruce here) and of everyone who got to usher in the new age with him.

Sending love from his aunt in the city (working hard on Hudson's cousin-to-be due June 26th : ))

c.

Photos of the day here.

Happy Birthday Hudson

Three years ago today, the miracle boy entered our lives.

Hudson continues to be a thriving, all-you-could-hope-for, dyed-in-the-wool boy of a being and I'm (juice) toasting him and his remarkable dad and hoping their birthday cake is sweet and the year(s) ahead all blue sky.

Much love + birthday hug,

(aunt) C

this charming man (and wife)

Can write you to tears.
And he's my cousin.

I'd heard that Andrew was blogging (in the large footsteps of his practically star blogger-wife Erin: http://www.elementsofstyleblog.com/), but it wasn't till yesterday when Erin directed me to Andrew's most recent post remembering Linds...
http://thedarkhorseblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-have-no-idea-what-to-title-this.html

Go cousin Andrew, and thanks.

much love
c

Birthday Cake

It's become a tradition: on Lindsey's birthday, the boy's bake her birthday cake.

This would make Linds super happy. Never one to turn away a good cake, I'm still searching for a Linds photo on an early birthday, bib on, face-planted and fast asleep in a slice of chocolate.



So - on high, all around, wherever she may be -
here's blowing out the candles to you Linds.

love


c

Happy Birthday dear Linds

Lindsey would be 36 today.



She'd be mother of an almost 3-year old, maybe there'd have been another one in the meantime or, to join the crowd (we're all doing it), one on the way.
She'd be alive to enjoy life in the new administration, alive to witness lilacs that'll be here soon, alive to make plans with...



I miss her more than ever.
I hope they're pulling out all the stops to celebrate her up where she is.

Love you Linds.
love
c

(So many great photos of Linds so narrowed the field to Linds + a few of our/her/my favorite men : ) Biased, but my blog...)

Beach Boy

If these photos from Lynn: don't depict a happy boy in his element being generously spoiled/loved by fabulous grandparents, then I clearly don't know how to interpret vacation pics and should be taken off blog duty.

From Honduras time with Hudson, I knew he loved beaches but this involvement/entombment is a whole new level of love. Awesomely cute moments from what looks like an idyllic Florida vacation with Bill + Lynn.

Love to all + hugs to little man H
c

infinity, and beyond

Ruslan and I joined Dad + Sarah, and Chad and Hudson, for a week on the island of Roatan, Honduras this Christmas.

Huge treat and having rented a house (with pool, palms, view + grill) we had nice swathes of time to just hang without hotel complications and posted meal times. It was lovely, gorgeous, recommended...



More photos of the trip - which I'll dig into and post here and there - are here:

Love to all, and - as Hudson is very (very) fond of saying, let's contemplate the year's motto:
To infinity and beyond....

l
c

of dogs and lizards

Wow am I behind on this. So much great material not-yet up - shameful.

Aunt Annie - who visited for Chad's birthday, is super on the ball and sent link to these very cute photos of the weekend.

LOVE Elphy, the new dog in town, and seem Hudson has affinity too. What instantaneous magic is it between kids and dog?


Also love that Hudson's adopted a lizard, inspired by the Iguana Park in Roatan Honduras and clearly in control with this one,



vs a standoff with the one at the park.

Great ones in there including the amazing journey that Chad's taken Linds' ashes on, the far-flung points of Linds.

More to come, promise.
The guy is just too active + popular to keep up...

Happy new year TO ALL.

c

Hudson's New Year

Lobsters, family (Bill + Lynn) and friends - new years doesn't get much finer.

Janelle posted cute record of the eve here.

Love to all

c