Hudson! (and a little painting)

Thomas, Jamie, and Hudson came home for a few days around the end of February, and it was also the weekend I had "bunco", so we stayed at Dad's for the night.  The girls all get together once a month for "bunco", but we haven't actually played bunco in a long time.  It's really just a reason to get out of the house for a few hours one Friday night a month without kids!  February's bunco was a "wine and art" night. 

I thought there was no way that I could paint anything halfway decent, because I'm the farthest thing from artsy, but it ended up turning out way better than I ever thought.  We painted in steps, and had a painting to reference during the whole thing. 

It's amazing how everyone's paintings ended up looking similar, but different in its own way.  When I took my painting into Dad's that night, no one actually believed that I painted it.  I'm no Pablo Picasso, but it definitely doesn't look like a 3rd grader did it either!  It was a lot of fun!

Mine compared to the teacher's....I'll let you decide which one is mine!

By the time I got back to Dad's after painting, Joel and the girls were already asleep.  Both girls were snoring, and I couldn't fall asleep.  I thought it was Jake (Thom's dog) snoring, so I woke Joel up to kick Jake out of the room, but that's when we figured out it was actually Lily snoring, and once Joel got out of bed to check, both girls woke up.  Since I hadn't fallen asleep yet, I got up with both of them and they both thought it would be great to have a 1 a.m. party at Grandpa Bill's house!

Ainsley couldn't wait for Hudson to get to Dad's the next morning.  I'm pretty sure Lily was excited to see him too.  It didn't take her long to start attacking the poor little guy!

Two little hoodlums wanting some of whatever Ainsley was eating!

I watched Hudson for Thom and Jamie while they went to a visitation, and according to his Mommy he "would sleep a few hours that afternoon and then fall back asleep around 6 after he ate supper".  Yeah, that didn't happen.  Hudson didn't sleep one second for Aunt Trista!

He sure had lots of fun, though!  He thought Ainsley throwing balls out of the ball pit was hilarious!

They needed a bath after this!

He loved the mac and cheese!

All that fun quickly stopped when it came around to bath time.  Ainsley had finally fallen asleep on the living room floor right before supper, so we fed Hudson and Lily.  After supper, we woke Ainsley up so she could take a bath with the other two and that's when it all went down hill.  All three of the kids were crying because they were tired, and no one had fun in the bathtub.  I'm pretty sure we had all three kids in and out of the bathtub in under 5 minutes.  It was that bad. 

The girls sure loved having another little play buddy, and Ainsley started asking the next day when she'd see Hudson again.  She loves to watch the video of Hudson laughing, and she'll giggle right along with him!