How Green Becomes Wood

He pointed his thumb at his paint-covered adorable and highly impressionable niece, "If you think the second she gets too excited she ain't gonna give us a hug, you haven't spent enough time with her. It don't matter what I do, she will cover us in paint."
 
Lex thought about pointing out the distinction between Ivy accidentally getting paint on them and deliberately painting another person, and then she decided that was a problem for her parents. Gleefully, she swiped a finger across Coogers cheek, leaving a purple streak.
 
Ivy watched this curiously from where she sat, spreading more of the paint across the paper.

Cooger raised an eyebrow at Lex, and with his fingers in green paint, put two streaks on her opposite cheek.
 
"Well, well, well," Lex grinned. "It looks like we're going to war now, don't it?" She picked up the cup of paint with the least amount in it and dolloped a generous amount with her thumb. That paint then went in a swooping sweep right over Cooger's brow and a firm (but careful not to hurt) tap on the end of his nose.
 
Cooger looked from the paint on his hand back to Lex, and an idea came into his mind, but he decided against it. He was about to paint on Lex's face again, but before he could, Ivy stood up, walked right through the paint, and as expected, gave him a big hug. Then, giggling, touched his face, grinning at the hand print she left behind.
 
Lex laughed heartily. "Ha! Good job, Ivy! Get his face!" She looked at the little footprints left on the deck. "Aw, so cute! Good thing it washes off." She looked at Cooger, grinning. "Now what are you going to do? You've been pinned by Cuteness!"
 
"Ivy," Cooger said, putting both hands on her shoulders since she was covered in paint anyway, "This is very important. I need you to go and give your Aunty Lex the biggest hug of your life."

This seemed like something Ivy might be inclined to do when he turned her around to face Lex, but then Enkidu came up, curious about his humans. Seeing Ivy so covered in paint, he walked right through her drawing on the ground and came up to sniff her face. Laughing at this, Ivy started petting him with her paint covered hands before hugging him instead.

"lex." Cooger said, slowly looking from this to his girlfriend, "i think we will die tonight."
 
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