potty time

Today was a hilarious, awesome, funny, and sort of breakthrough night for Hudson and his big boy potty. We've (more so I) started singing a little potty song to him, and asking him if he wants to sit on his potty and go to the bathroom. Tonight, after his bath, we began the routine, and Hudson sat down on his potty and peed a little bit (he had to scoot himself back so he could actually pee IN the potty, which was hilarious to watch). Upon doing this, Andy and I started clapping and applauding his success. This encouraged him to sit down and repeat his short potty time. Which resulted in Andy and I applauding him again with clapping, yelling, and high fives. Which resulted in him repeating the potty time again. And so the applaud repeated, and the mini potty time repeated, and so on. This routine happened probably 10-12 times. And every time, a mini pee time took place in Hudson's little potty. It was awesome.  I finally went to get my phone to video this activity, and unfortunately that was the end of this potty time party. The great news is Hudson seems to have had a little breakthrough with his potty. Or at least he's a step closer to understanding the point. Maybe. Either way, it was a fun moment for our family - our little naked boy is the best.

a wave goodbye

So today, when i dropped Hudson off at daycare and went to leave, he looked at me - waved goodbye - and went on playing. This may seem normal to some people, but in the 17 months this child has been at daycare he has NEVER been ok with me leaving. He's always put up a fight, a cry, or tried to follow me out the door. But not today. Today, he was ok with me being gone...my little independent man. Growing up too fast...

thank you, Easter Bunny

Every year the park across from our house has an Easter egg hunt. Last year, Hudson wasn't walking yet and had a bad double ear infection the day they had the hunt. This year, we got there about two minutes too late, and all the eggs had been snatched up by the hundreds of other little kids there. We did manage to get a picture of Hudson with the Easter bunny - and he played in the box of "recycled" egg containers to get his egg fix. :) It's a gorgeous day out though, and we are all healthy, so it was still a perfect day to go out for the annual egg hunt!

Here he was last year…same bunny, much 'fuller' Hudson face! :)