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A week ago, at 4:05pm, Hudson officially turned two years old.
How?
It seems like just seconds ago a skinny, curly headed creature was being lifted into view - the first time I ever laid eyes on my son.
The curly hair is gone. The spindly legs are not. And neither is the feeling of amazement that I still get when I look at him. Often after Hudson has fallen asleep at night, one of us will tiptoe into his room to get one last peek at him before we go to bed, and usually it will end with that person whispering, "Pssst! Come look how Hudson's sleeping! He's doing his froggy legs again!"Every new colour, number, or word he learns is cause for celebration. Today he walked up the stairs by himself without using the wall or a hand as a guide, and even that was worth exclaiming, "Quick, look what Hudson's doing!" He has a laugh that is contagious, silliness that will keep me in his room until song 11 at bedtime (usually playing 'round and round the garden' or putting a random object on my head and pretending it's a hat), and affection that is uncontained.
Hudson Joseph. You are a neat little guy. You are SO curious, just like your favorite TV pal, Curious George. Much like him, you get yourself into all kinds of sticky situations (often literally). You are incredibly busy - as in can't leave you alone for more than thirty seconds, because that's the time it takes for you to snatch a can of shaving cream and "wash" your hair with it in your room while mommy's not looking. Or find mom's pin cushion and take all the pins out and poke them into Nuzzle (a thousand apologies if any of your dogs experienced any mishaps about a month ago due to my son playing witch doctor). Or stuff red play dough up your nose.

And sometimes (too often), mommy raises her voice a little too loud - sometimes before I even get the words, "Hudson, stop it!" out of my mouth, you are already covering your ears - and that breaks my heart. But I'm working on it. I'm working on embracing the fact that you explore your world with every one of your senses, rather than just sit back and let the moments pass. I'm finding the balance between letting you be you...while still keeping hair in my head.
Either way, me and daddy love you with a love that we will never be able to explain in words.
Just because you're ours!