Birthday Blues...

Have I been a slacker or what?!!?

These past two weeks have been CrAzY!! Hudson has had a double ear infection of which the right ear seems to want to stay infected despite the antibiotic. I feel so bad for my poor baby who wakes up crying in the night and during his naps. It's so sad when babies are sick because they are so helpless! We have really been struggling to get to this first birthday totally 100% healthy but we are still praying!! We have an ear re-check on Friday (his 1st birthday) and hopefully the infection will be gone or that means a different kind of medicine! :0(

On a positive note, Hudson is walking all over the place lately. It's so funny because he will start crawling at times and when he realizes what he's doing, he will stand up and just start walking. It's like he forgot for a second or two! When he started taking steps at ten months we thought he would be an early walker but it seems like it has taken him FOREVER just to get this far! Finally we have gotten it though and it will only improve from here.

Hudson is saying more words lately but most of the time I notice his understanding is developing so much. The other day he was playing with a tissue and I told him "Go put it in the garbage!" (not thinking that he would understand or know what garbage is) and he crawled right over to the garbage can, stood up, put the tissue in there, and looked at me and clapped for my cheery approval! (of course i was cheering!) The other day he was playing in a drawer with dvds in it and i told him to put the dvds back (and he did) and shut the drawer (and he did)! It's just amazing how much they understand you. Some words he has added is water(wa wa), what's that? (adat), down, bubbles (bubus), more, etc. He has perfected the nana and amen also.

As for the birthday party plans, they are going well!! I feel like I have a lot to do before Friday but I think I can pull it off!! We are having a "fish" themed party for Hudson and I think I went a little crazy at the christmas tree shop in Nyack this weekend! I will definitely post pictures! I am praying for good weather so we can have most of the party outside so we wont have to be cooped up in a house. So far it is supposed to be sunny and 76! yay!

Well... I hope all is well...I am headed to bed...goodnight all!