Hugo Family Update

 I am loving Chase at this age! He is so fun and smart. He is reading really well and starting to show so much imagination in his play. The other day I found him balancing a ruler out the back of one of his little trucks, with the string from another toy attached- he made his own crane! He's always struggled with saying a 'c' at the first of a word- it comes out a t- so crane comes out train, which has caused some confusion when he's tried to explain what he wants leading to frustration from him. I worked with him for about 30 seconds on saying his 'c' correctly and now he tries it all the time when he's talking to me. "Mom, can I see the c-c-computer?" He is so motivated to learn and be big. His prayers lately crack me up too- it varies between a long list of extreme desires (like please bless that tomorrow we can go to the airport and go on an airplane...) to just talking about whatever happened to him that day (and then I went to Will and Matt's to play and we played trains....) and then as he asks for blessings for each member of our family he points to each one of us. He's also growing in his relationship with his baby brother which is heart-melting to watch!

  At 14 months Hudson is a delight and a challenge! I think he's frustrated that he can't communicate as well as he'd like and he's starting to have opinions of his own- combined with cutting another tooth this last month- has lead to a lot more whining and crying than normal. Hudson's biggest accomplishment this last month is that he's finally WALKING! He's been so stable on his feet the last few months while standing, but completely dug in his heels (figuratively and literally) whenever we tried to encourage him to walk. He's got it now! He's saying more words now- including "please" "Chase" "baby"- which are our favorites. He's also started being an eyebrow man- he gives the most serious crusties whenever we tell him NO. He's little eyebrows fall so low on his face and we laugh every time! In these pictures he's wearing a little outfit my mom made for my brother Nate when he was a baby, which was so sweet.

As for Ben and I, we are still just so enamored with our little boys! They are a dream come true. We lay in bed at night and talk about how cute and fun they are. Outside of being parents, we've had a few new things going on. This year we both got new church callings- Ben is now teaching the 15-16 year olds in Sunday School and I am now a Laurel advisor. Ben has been working on a big project in our backyard- putting the fence in (correctly) that blew down last winter. My dad has been helping him and Chase and Hudson watch from our window, totally fascinated by the process (there may have been a tractor involved...) Our other big accomplishment this year is that we've started watching Parks and Rec back in January and we are now caught up to the present season- and we've laughed really hard all the way through it. We are also working harder on getting out on dates (mostly thanks to my sweet parents and a few good friends for babysitting) and have really enjoyed going to the temple together, along with a few other fun nights out to dinner and movies. After all those years of being in school now we feel like a normal married couple!