Boys...

This weekend we didn't take many pictures because I was out sick all day Saturday with a stomach bug that the kids brought home on Wednesday. The kids actually fared better than I did. They were only out on Wednesday and were back in action Thursday morning. I am still a bit queasy today and am hoping to get some sort of appetite back soon.

So...since I didn't take any pictures I figured I'd give a recap of the past month of what it's like to be the parent of a toddler boy. Mind you Gwennie was all over the place as well but Hudson seems to find ways to scare us more than I ever thought a little kid could. Let's start with about a month ago...that Saturday at one of Gwennie's soccer games he tripped and fell and landed on Corbin which resulted in him biting the sides of his tongue (nothing major...just a few tears and a little blood), then the day after he ran head first into the refrigerator and ended up with a large goose egg. Later that day we had decided to meet his godparents (and Crawford) at a pumpkin patch and as we were walking around, one of the employees was driving a bit too fast to park and as he passed us, Hudson turned and literally ran into the back tire of the moving truck! It's hard to explain (and still hard to talk about because I was right there screaming and right next to him) how it happened because he was all of two feet away from me. Anyhow, miraculously he "bounced" off the tire and was not hurt at all. The only thing he had was a little red mark on his head. Then just about every day that week he managed to run into something at daycare. And....tonight when he was running around before bath, he tripped again and when he fell both Corbin and I knew it was going to be another moment our hearts jumped into our chest. Luckily the worst of it was a fat lip and after a few minutes of tears and an ice pack, he was back in action.

Suffice to say that boys are nothing like girls and I don't know what I am going to do once he starts playing organized sports. As his pediatrician and our good friend Jennifer says "Hallelujah, praise the lord, there must be an angel watching over him". I can't agree more...thank you to the folks upstairs and sorry to keep you so busy!