smarty pants

Hudson is 3. At 3 he is much too smart. I bought him a new pair of pants at the old navy baby sale. So yesterday I was putting them on to see if they fit and adjusting the tabs. I had to pull the tabs out 9 notches on both sides. Yes, he is really skinny. He has the "Chipman Butt". That means not there. I said to him "where is your butt? It is missing". And that was that. About an hour later he was being mean to Cambree ( nothing new) so I said " I am going to spank your butt". He turned to me and said, full of sarcasm, "mommy, my butt is missing. If you can find it, you can spank it."

running

So I finally bought a treadmill. I have been looking for one since November. I thought that if I tell the world that I plan to loose some weight maybe I will stick with it. Wish me luck.

hot water

So, last Thursday, while Mike was in Vegas, Hudson and I were watching tv waiting for bedtime. I heard a bunch of loud popping noises. I was a little freaked out because Mike was gone, and I was sure there was a shoot-out down the street or something. I told Hudson to wait downstairs while I investigated.( Cambree was already asleep upstairs) As soon as I got to the bottom of the stairs I realized that the sound was coming from our laundry room because I heard gushing water. It turns out that our hot water heater was going crazy. I can't believe how much I take for granted such simple things as hot water. I had to heat water in the microwave 2 cups at a time to give Cambree a bath. And then I ended up just giving her a quick little bath in the sink, but still it was such a hassle. Luckily I was headed to my parents house on friday, so I was able to shower there, but I haven't been able to wash my dirty dishes in the dishwasher until tonight. I am very glad that my brother is very handy with stuff like that and he was able to come over last night and try to fix it, but about 20 minutes after he left it started acting up again, so I had to turn it off and go without hot water for one more day. He came back tonight and hopefully fixed the problem for good. I am just really glad that I have a hot water heater in my home. I can't even imagine having to heat water for every little thing.

great to be a boy

So Hudson has been potty trained since december, but he is still kind of new at it, and had not attempted standing up...until yesterday. I followed him up to the bathroom to help him get on the potty and when we got up there, out of no where, he said "I want to stand up like daddy". I thought it was great. Until he started peeing and I don't think that even half of it made it in the toilet. I still think it is a good thing that he wants to try standing up, and I didn't let him know that I was not excited to clean it up, but wow I was not excited to clean that up. He hasn't tried again, but when daddy got home he gave him a little lesson on aiming, so I hope that helps. At least my bathroom got a nice deep clean.