Counting & ABCs

It’s no surprise that poor little Hudson doesn’t get the same attention as Emma did.  With Emma we stayed home alot and just played and worked on stuff all day long.  These days life is just busy.  I still think of Hudson as my little baby and I’m so not ready for him to grow up.  :)  I have no desire to switch him from his crib to a big boy bed and would be fine keeping him there until he’s 18.  ha.

So I was super surprised a couple of weeks ago when Hudson starting counting.  Emma always did things very early and I if I remember correctly, she was counting at like 15 months old and counting to 20 by 18 months old.  She’s a girl and just does things quickly.  So while I work with Hudson some, I just haven’t done it much.

He was sitting on my lap 2 weeks ago and was banging his 2 cars together and saying something.  I wasn’t paying much attention b/c I was watching American Idol-which I’m loving this season!  After a minute or two I started paying attention to him and realized he was counting as he hit his cars together!  I about died!  He would hit the cars together and say “one” and so on.  I quickly paused the tv and had George and Emma listen.  Then Emma had him counting to twenty.  So how long has he been counting?  I have no clue!  This just came out of nowhere.  I was so proud.  :)

Then last night in the Shaggy’s parking lot he sang his ABCs with me for the first time ever!  I’ve been working on that for a long time with him and every night for the past so many months I sing them over and over at bedtime.  He can definitely point out letters if you ask him “where’s the A” but to hear that sweet little voice sing with me was so sweet.  He’s such a doll!

Now I just need to get it on video.  I’ll do my best to work on that.

I still have more pictures to share from Emma’s big birthday weekend but for now I’ll share some older pictures of H…