attacked by butterflies

yesterday we found a butterfly on the trampoline.  from my internet research i believe it is a western tiger swallowtail.  we all thought it was pretty neat, but there's also a funny story about it.  when maria, hudson and i saw this beautiful butterfly i started to head inside to tell ethan to come look at it.  as i was walking toward the house i turned around and noticed it was gone so i began to walk back to the kids.  then i heard hudson crying.  my thought was, "for pete's sake, the kids are fighting again."  but maria yelled, "mom, the butterfly is on hudson!"  i got over to the trampoline and sure enough, there was that big butterfly on hudson's back and hudson did not like it one bit!  i tried to tell him it wouldn't hurt him but he didn't believe me.  i was able to get it to fly off of his back and it flew back onto the enclosure. we were able to watch it for a little while and show ethan.

i feel bad but i laughed really hard at the fact the hudson was so distraught over this harmless butterfly.  i mean, the kid was really crying.  he seems like such a tough and crazy kid.  i guess every dude has some ickey thing that makes him nervous, but hudson and a butterfly?  didn't see that coming.

here are two pictures i was able to get with my phone of our visiting tiger swallowtail.

another interesting buddy fact:  he is the slowest bike-rider in the entire universe!  i'm not exaggerating either!  this kid rides his bike slower than i have EVER seen ANY kid ride a bike.  and it's not that he can't ride faster.  for some reason he just chooses to ride slowly . . . really, really slowly.  it takes us an hour just to get around the block.  this is weird to me because i would think hudson would be the kind of kid that has a need for speed.