Eating my words

Hudson is out to make a liar of me. Lately just as soon as I say he is or is not doing something, he does the complete opposite. For example, for the past week Hudson claps as he should when I sing, “If you are happy and you know it” but he absolutely refused to do this on Tuesday when his grandparents were here. And the other night I told Josh that we should get rid of a particular toy that he never plays with and he “crawled” right over to it and amused himself for 15 minutes.

While I have been eating my words, Hudson has been entertaining to watch eat. He is almost completely on table food. I have a few Gerber food jars around for when we eat something forbidden for him (like shrimp) or when we go out to dinner. He would be fine with restaurant food, but it just takes too long. You don’t realize that it takes so long to get your order until you have your 11 month old waiting on the meal. He is ready to eat when we are seated and not a second later. When I was investigating daycares on the state website, I saw many were penalized for not having the kids’ food ready when they sat down. This is an actual citation, “Children waited more than 2 minutes at the table before afternoon snack was served in the Monkeys room”. I thought that was pretty silly, but last night’s meal at our fav restaurant reminded me that a bunch of hungry, squawking kids could turn into a mutiny if given too much waiting time.

My favorite Hudson food move has to be running his fingers through his hair after eating with his fingers. His crusty hair has resulted in countless baths, which he loves, and might just be the cause of the new performance. This is much better than his other character move of taking food out of his mouth to re-examine it after a couple of bites. One day he will be a fine dining companion. I am not lying.