HUDSON TYLER LE HAS ARRIVED

Little Mac arrived this morning at 6:09 AM weighing in at 8 lbs. 2 ounces and 20 and a half inches long. Another big baby, just like Fayte, but at least his head was much smaller. Speaking of head, he came out with a full head of thick luxurious curly brown hair! Mom and baby are doing very well and we'll post pix and updates later this week. Everyone who has visited so far thinks he's a splitting image of Mom. We'll let you judge for yourself once pix are uploaded later this week.

HUDSON WATCH 2008

We are under a Hudson Watch and the forecast calls for showers; baby showers! While we've been trying to go about our daily lives blocking out the fact that Hudson will be here any day now, we've been keeping ourselves busy with two things: nesting and baby showers.

Both of our workplaces were generous enough to throw us some fabulous showers and the V-Family hosted one at our home this weekend in Dallas. We are so grateful to all and had so much fun that we weren't able to snap enough photos. Really, here are the few that we did manage to get. Some of these were actually taken by Fayte.


Daddy's ad firm already wants to put him to work!


Cake balls! These are sooooo good.


Aunt KJ And Uncle Nate

And as far as the nesting instinct goes, we've been full speed ahead in trying to create the perfect home for Hudson. His new crib came in just in time and after a trip to Home Depot for some hardware, we were able to patch the parts of the old crib together to form a matching day bed for his room. Take a look:


Cooper the Longhorn enjoys Hudson's new crib


And here's the matching day bed


We also gave this old bookcase new life with some cool wrapping paper. Cheap DIY job.


Here's the same trick on one of Fayte's bookcases.


While we were picking up the hardware for the daybed, we also picked up some peg board for 5 bucks. After painting it chalkboard green, it became the perfect organization item for Fayte's school area in our studio.


Well white rug, it was nice to know you.


Can't wait to add the fourth frame to the mantle!

Well, this should be the last post before the Le Unit becomes a 4-member group. The big day should be next Friday or sooner. Until then, it's Hudson Watch 2008. Wish us luck!

IT'S 112 DEGREES OUTSIDE AND YES I'M STILL PREGNANT

Although it's become unbelievably uncomfortable with the temperature usually still hovering around 99 degrees at bed time, we've been doing what we can around the house to make sure Hudson feels as comfy and cozy as he possibly can when he arrives. We're shooting for an end-of-the-month arrival, but now that it's been 9 months, it's really any day now. As you can tell from the little polaroid up there, he's a low-rider and he's been extremely active to boot. Perhaps its because his home has recently begun to experience earthquakes. In other words, the lovely Braxton Hicks contractions have already started. We'll keep you posted. Check back often as we'll be live-blogging the labor and delivery! (Kidding.)


The bassinet is ready to go!


And we've built a mobile to match his woodland themed walls.


We were pretty pumped to find this book in one of our old moving boxes.


And we were also suckers for this little guy.


Perhaps you've heard that we won a Jonathan Adler designed giraffe sconce from Apartment Therapy! Finally, some good luck this year.


Fayte sings a song to Hudson.


Fayte enjoying the new family-sized mid-century sofa. We ordered this way back before the lightning fiasco when we moved and it just now came in!


Not to be outdone by her brother, Fayte had to have some branches on her wall as well!

A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND

It's that time again! Time for the annual Le Family Yankee game. This year we caught the team in Dallas rather than in the Bronx, and Cousin Connor came along. Uncle Patrick was nice enough to score a large family-friendly SUV for the trek out to the ballpark and we had a blast. The game featured several lead changes, many homeruns, and a tie-breaking walk-off grand slam! Unfortunately, it was for the Rangers. Still, it was a night to remember.


Pulling up to the Ballpark, we were in awe of the new "Jerry Land" opening next football season.


Fayte took a little batting practice before the game.


She hit a dinger and won a prize!


The proud parents. We were ecstatic.


Uncle Patrick, Cousin Connor and Aunt Kristi: A House Divided.


Fayte zooms in on the Captain, Derek Jeter


Okay. We're going to blame this purchase on Hudson's mind-control.


"Daddy, you're going to feel really bad about eating that chili-cheese dog later."

Speaking of New York and food, we had the pleasure of trying out Grimaldi's new location in Dallas's Uptown neighborhood recently. While the thin-sliced cheese-bubbly pizza was as authentic as the original coal-fired variety in Brooklyn, the experience was soured by everything that is wrong about Dallas. The place was infested with botox injecting metrosexuals, implants, peroxide and get this...wine lists. We waited close to an hour for our pie and the deafening techno music did not make things any easier. Probably won't be back. Pastazio's is our favorite place to grab an NY pie in Dallas.


The pizza was truly NY, but the uppity nightclub atmosphere was far from it.


Fayte didn't seem to mind though as she was occupied with making her own pizza.

Oh and yes, as you can tell from the header, we are pretty pregnant now. In fact, Hudson will be full-term at the end of the month so really its any day now (though we're planning for his arrival to be at the end of the month). We'll save the preggers update for another post coming soon.