Hudson's 11th Birthday

Halloween 2019

Hudson at Cubs

Hudson's First Summer Camp

Hudson and three of his school friends got to spend the first week of summer together at Camp Impeesa, a Scouts Canada camp in southern Alberta. The camp leaders posted tons of photos online for parents so here are some of the photos they shared of Hudson's camp adventures:

Hudson's Broken Arm

At the end of May, I went to pick Hudson up from his rock climbing class and he told me his elbow hurt from a fall. He'd been bouldering early on in the class and when he was at an overhang about six feet off the ground, with his feet up by his hands, he lost his grip and fell down onto the mats below and landed on his right arm. His arm looked fine to me - no swelling or bruising - and he could still bend his elbow so I sent him to bed with an ice pack and some ibuprofen. The next morning I forgot to ask him how his elbow was feeling and he rode his bike to school. When he got home after school, he was in tears from how much it hurt his elbow to ride his bike so I decided to take him into the ER for x-rays just in case. Four hours later, we went home with his right arm in a half-cast. Turns out he'd fractured his ulna bone right by the elbow in the growth plate area.

I assumed he'd need to leave the cast on for about six weeks. He was sad because it meant he wouldn't be able to swim when we went to Raymond for Canada Day or when he went to Scout camp at Impesa in early July. But he wasn't sad that it meant he had to quit piano lessons for the year!

We went back to the hospital two weeks later for a follow up visit and further x-rays. And much to our surprise, the doctor said the fracture was all healed and he could throw his cast in the garbage!!

Back to School 2016

Now that Shae has graduated, we're back down to three kids in school.

Grade 7:

Grade 4:

Grade 2:

Hudson's soccer

Hudson was our only soccer player this spring. He played for a neighbourhood U8 team called the Bombers. He had a bunch of friends from school on his team and a lot of the time, the kids were so distracted by playing with each other that they didn't really pay enough attention to the game. So their scoring opportunities were pretty scarce. But they got lots of exercise and had tons of fun so it's all good.