Texting with a 3 year old

I would have never dreamed that turning three a month ago would've been such a turning point in our lives. Hayden seems to have "caught on" to several things. Potty training has been going really well. We're almost there. PRAISE THE LORD! He can now sit and watch movies and his attention span is expanding to allow him to sit for more than five minutes. He has a really funny sense of humor and is starting to pick up on funny things in TV shows and then recreate them. (He loves to jump off things saying, "To infinity & beyond!", Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story.) His imagination has come out of nowhere. He's really funny to watch.

Today, he had a "conversation" on his play cellphone with three of our adult friends while he was waiting on me to make his lunch. He "talked" to Mrs. Misty, our old friend who just moved back to town; he was "texting" Mrs. Shirley (aka Auntie Bling) about talking to him on the 'puter (he has been "skyping" with his Kentucky grandparents, after we set up a "date" via texting), & then he talked to Mr. Mike (a friend's dad who we pray for every night). Mr. Mike said to come back and see him because he was asleep. (We went to visit him the other day at the hospital, but he was asleep. We promised him to go back another day. He has a mind like an elephant.) I think that he may have even been "texting" him back and forth. Wow, who would've thought that his 1st imaginations would be revolving around the cellphone.

I think that I'll enjoy this new phase of life. So sweet and innocent and yet seeing his little personality coming through.

The Inchworm

Hudson has learned to push up and "inchworm" himself! He's a mess. He inches straight off the blanket and on to his eye's prize: Hayden's baseball glove, the remote, etc. I think we're really in for it! Hayden picked up his glove tonight with an "Oh, no!" as there was already drool on it. I assured him it would be fine, and know full well this is the first of MANY times I will have to apologize on his behalf. The world has just gotten a lot more complicated.

6.

Wow...Hudson is 6 months old! We were talking about how quickly (yet how slowly) the past 6 months have gone. There has been a lot of adjustment to having 2 kids, lots of tears, lots of lost sleep. But its been some of the best 6 months of our lives. Some days it is really easy. Other days I feel like its our 1st week home from the hospital. We wouldn't have it any other way. We have no recollection of life before kids. Selective amnesia is such a blessing.

Hudson is becoming MOBILE! He finally allowed us to put him down on a blanket a few weeks ago and immediately loved pushing up & rolling around...and maneuvers his way off of where I put him. His goal is to immediately get off his blanket & onto his own agenda. Yesterday, he discovered Hayden's loud & obnoxious Lightning McQueen car & "shimmied" & rolled his way to get to it. I think that crawling is right around the corner. I really hope not. We're not child-proofed {again} yet! He has also started eating cereal & dried plums {aka prunes}. He LOVES eating and can't stand for us to eat a meal without him. He usually screams at me until I get him his next bite.

Happy 6 months, Hudson! We love you!