Happy 3 year birthday, Hudson

January 6, 2013
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HUDSON!

OH MY WORD! How did this happen?! You turned 3.  You are not a baby anymore.  I am so happy to watch you grow up and so sad at the same time.  You are just a wonderful, sweet, determined, intelligent, hysterical, emotional little boy.

This past 6 months have been big for you.  You got a brand new brother and you LOVE your baby.  After constantly asking me if my belly would pop soon, your brother was born the day we went apple picking.  I am so glad we got to go apple picking as our little family of three. You enjoyed it. It was a wonderful date before everything changed and you couldn't have my almost undivided attention anymore.  You have to share me. So far, you do really great with that.  Sometimes you want me or whoever is holding Camden to put him down to play with you, though.  It is funny. 

You enjoy cuddling.  Randomly during the day, and almost always at bedtime, you ask to cuddle with me.  I LOVE IT!  I am a cuddler and so glad that you are right now too.  You love cuddling with Camden too. You want to hold him and kiss him.  You sing to him.  You sing "Hush Little Baby" when he cries.  It is AWESOME! 

You still go to your preschool class and had gone to your gym class and enjoyed yourself.  I still love seeing your crafts.  This time, the preschool class is a little different.  You've taken a liking to a little girl there named Ashlynn and sit with her a bunch.  Vavo brings you to your classes. 

You were Spiderman for Halloween this year.  You are OBSESSED with Spiderman.  You pretend to throw out a web all the time.  It is cute.  You put on your costume at random times and run around the house pretending to get the bad guys.  It makes me smile.  You have races with yourself in the house. You like to run from the kitchen to the living room constantly.  You still love your tools and play with them and fix everything in the house all the time.  I LOVE IT!

The holidays were eventful.  At Thanksgiving you came down with a bad cold and had to stay home and miss the festivities.  You had a great time at Daddy's friend's Christmas party.  You made a Santa hat and got to decorate it.  We had many other Christmas parties after that with different groups of family members.  You had  a great time opening all your presents.  New Years Eve, we let you stay up very late. I don't think you enjoyed it that much though. 

We had your birthday party with your friends at KidCity in Middletown.  It was a tool theme.  You seem like you had a great time playing and eating ice cream cake before lunch. 

You have said some funny things these last few months.  One night you woke up having a nightmare.  I asked you what was wrong and you said there were caterpillars in your bed.  One day, you had a scratch on your face (I think it was from your fingernail).  You told grandma that you got the scratch from Cooper (Grandma's dog). You said he bit you.  Then, when Poppy came over a little later, Grandma said, "Tell Poppy how you got the scratch." You then said a crab bit you.  You are too funny.  You enjoy making up stories with your fantastic imagination.

When you are told that you aren't allowed to do something, sometimes you burst into tears and say, "Oh no! Not again."  

Sometimes, we will be playing with toys and you turn to me and tell me I can't play with them.  Then you tell me that maybe when I get older I can play with them.  It makes me chuckle.  You say your a such a big boy and Camden can't do things because he is little, but will when he gets bigger like you.

One other thing that you say that makes me chuckle is that you call the squirrels outside your friends.  If you are sitting at the table or looking out the window, you will yell, MY FRIEND! MY FRIEND! 

YOU ARE SO ADORABLE.

I love you!