If you love sappy music, semi-redundant photos of a smiley baby, and my terrible, high-pitched baby voice—I have JUST the video for you!

I really had no plans to share this video outside of our immediate family but since I FORGOT THE CORD to actually play this slideshow at his birthday party… you are welcome.

When I decided to make a slideshow of photos and videos of Hudson’s first year, I thought it would be… a fun little project.

I could not have underestimated this project any less. This was a HUMUNGOUS UNDERTAKING thanks to my lack of restraint with the photo taking and the literal 10K photos/videos I had to sort through to get it down to about one a day. I fear I’ve set a terrible precedent for myself that I will have to do this again if and when we ever have a second child, ha.

But! It’s done and I’m so, so glad I did this. Seeing Hudson grow and change this year from a tiny (ish—my 9-pounder was probably not what most people would call tiny) pink infant into the grinning, gap-toothed, beautiful boy that he is today… it’s incredible. How did all of that happen in one year? Ah, life. Hudson will probably think I’m bananas for doing this when he’s old enough to understand it, but I’ll always treasure it. #crazymomstatus.

Cheers, friends.