offspring

Speaking

I also forgot to mention that Hudson has all of a sudden developed quite the vocabulary. He's now got lots of sounds that definitely mean a particular thing, and most of them even resemble the English word; ie. something a non-parent could pretty easily be convinced is the actual word.:-) He now says:

• Doggie = Duh-gie
  
• Beans = Beeeeesh
  
• Mom = Mom-mom
  
• Dad = Dah-die
  
• Outside = Dah-die (but by the back window)
  
• Food = Yum-yums
  
• Up = Up
  
• Bananna = Nah-Nah
  
• Water = Wah-Wah
  
• Snack = Nack
  
• Knock = Nah-Nah
  
• Bottle = Bah-bah
  
• Nurse = Ness
  
• Sleep (night-night) = Ni-Ni
  
• Grandpa = Guh-pah
  

I think that's the Hudson to English dictionary at the moment. Many of those are recognizable as words; some of them (particularly "yum-yum") are very, very cute.