New "two" you!

In the last few weeks we have hit some major milestones in the Dray household! First and most important, drum roll please....We have been PACI FREE for over a week!! Yes you saw right, Hudson “the paci hoarder” as you will see below had just a small attachment to these brightly colored objects! Tyler and I even called Lighting McQueen so that he could tell Hudson that big boys don’t have pacifiers! We bought him a new big truck and even surprised him with his favorite, M&M’s!! Now, for a simple piece of advice...when you take them away don’t just take the ones that you have stashed away in the cabinet, get down on your hands and knees and crawl all through the house in search of these little things because somehow he has managed to find a few, under the dresser, in the toy box, even in his big trucks...hmmmm!! We quickly take them and say shoooweee bye bye “pi” in the trash it goes! Hudson’s sleeping patterns have changed...oh about 2 or 3 a.m. he wakes up and thinks he needs to journey down the hall from his big boy bed to the big bed with mom and dad! It’s one of those things that you don’t hear until he is standing on the doggie stairs right beside me going, “Mama, Dat, up pease I get in big big bed!!” It is too sweet though. I just love that little voice especially when I grab him to put him in between us and he hugs me and says, “I love you!”

Next, we had our 2 year check up last week, and I was ecstatic to find out he didn’t have to have shots, whahoo!! I love going to find out how much he has grown and all the other statistics that they give you. So here they are...

Hudson at 2...

Height is 37 ½ in

Weight is 31 lbs

He is off the charts for his height as he has been since he was several months old! He is in the 50-75^th percentile for his weight even though the kid has absolutely no body fat! Hahaha!! My little man is growing up so fast and his vocabulary is expanding every day! I just have mixed emotions about this but am sure everyone sympathizes with me, right?!!

Legend of the "Murse"

The definition of a “murse:” Man Purse!!

Yes, it is true Hudson had a murse! Thanks to Nan who picked him up from Mallorie’s one afternoon and she saw just how many cars and trucks the poor little guy had to gather up in his small hands just to get out the door. As you all know Hudson has a multitude of cars big and small that travel everywhere he does! He knows exactly which ones he brings along so don’t try and sneak one under the seat so maybe he wouldn't notice and would have one less car to keep up with...HE KNOWS!!

So enters the murse! Hudson loved it! He could fit about 6 to 8 cars in the murse which is double what he could carry prior to. Tyler on the other hand not so much! A PURSE...Where did he get that? Hahaha! We thought that when Christmas came along and Nan had bought Hudson a Mack the truck carrying case that held 16 cars that that would replace the infamous murse. Nope, between Memaw, Papi, Nan, Pa, and Gum he had plenty of cars not just to fill Mack but some could still go in the murse!!

Last night Tyler was in the living room watching football, shocker I know, and I was completing a painting project when I hear, “oh no, look what Chubby did!” I walk around the corner to see this...

So...So long murse!! Good bye and good riddance from the Dray’s!