He's 4!!!!

Our first born turned FOUR years old on June 22nd. Hard to believe Hudsy is growing up so fast. Bittersweet. Per tradition, he woke up to balloons galore. See his first "fake" smile below.

 You would've thought it was this little guy's birthday for how excited he was to find a living room full of balloons! He got to play with them for about an hour while he patiently waited for the sleepy birthday boy to wake up (at 9:30!!).

 Second "fake" smile of the morning, while making blueberry muffins.

 He could NOT stop talking about his presents, he was over the moon excited to open them! First year that he's actually cared about opening presents so it was pretty fun watching him. And he was so nice to include his brother. Giving him one to open or letting him rip some paper, then telling him how much fun they were going to have playing together.

 Third "fake" smile, with his birthday blueberry muffin breakfast.

 Snuggles with Harlow. She sported a birthday cupcake shirt for him.

 The middle child couldn't give a good, genuine smile if he tried.

 Hudsy with his favorite person. No one beats Grandma! In fact, his restaurant of choice for his birthday supper was "the rice place" (known to most people as Chinese) because "my grandma loves it so much". He's a thoughtful 4 year old.

 Smoke bombs from Grandpa.

 These 2 love nothing more than to blow out birthday candles...over and over and over again!

Daddy bought Hudsy a tent...they camped in the living room.

It was a great birthday for Hudsy, and he'll celebrate all over again a couple more times with family. Birthdays never seem to end for these kids! But he's well worth it! He is an intelligent, mature, caring, high anxiety, nervous, and thougtful boy who doesn't like kissing his daddy because his whiskers scratch him so he insists he shave first, always wants his little brother to play with him, thinks Harlow should go back in Mommy's tummy so he doesn't have to hear her cry but still says she's HIS baby and no one else can have her and that she's beautiful/gorgeous/adorable, and always says I love you. The kid drives me absolutely crazy most days, but I'm sure lucky he's mine!