Germs, Germs and More Germs

All it takes is one evening at my Mom's house, to see where Hudson might be picking up all these viruses.

Last night, after dragging him away from the dog bowls and digging half-chewy nuggets of dog food out of his mouth, I decided to take him outside to the backyard. Isabelle and Oliver (Rusti's kids) were in the garden eating raspberries and Isabelle had found a bunch of "pet" snails. She had a doll wagon and was pulling them around. I put Hudson up on the trampoline so he wouldn't find a dog doo-doo inconspicuously hidden in the grass (I wouldn't put it beneath him).

Well, my Mom and I were chatting it up on the hammock, just messing around, and we watched Max and all the kids climb up on the tramp, with the doll wagon in tow.

As if in slow motion, Hudson starts off, crawling as fast as he can, over to the doll wagon and the other kids. He starts to reach a hand out to touch a snail and my Mom and I both start to yell "Ahhhhhhhh - don't let him get..........!!!!" and then my Mom jumps up to try to grab him. While she's stuggling to get onto the trampoline, I jump up and I start to gasp as I see Hudson pick up a huge snail (who's gooey body is all the way out of the shell, eyeballs straining and everything) and pops it in his mouth. (This is the part where, in the movies, you hear somone yell in a deep low voice "NOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo!")





Isabelle had seen Hudson and her precious snail in his mouth, and she immediately pulled a "Home Alone" face and screamed the highest-pitched, girliest scream - and kept it at the same pitch for about 15 entire seconds. Hudson got so startled and scared by Isabelle's scream that he started crying one of his really hurt-feelings cries, and by that time I grabbed him and dug the bubbling, slimy snail out of his mouth.

My Mom and I laughed our heads off - it was just the funniest scene - and I really couldn't believe that Hudson wouldn't have even stopped to look at the snails that were sliming their way over the side of the wagon, before just schlunking it into his mouth!!

Apparently, he didn't learn his lesson either, because after that episode, I put him back on the grass and he proceeded to eat dirt by using his mouth to bite the ground. *SIGH* What do I DO with this kid?!