Why I'm blessed with little boys! :)

Look at these faces! One would say these are faces only a mother would love. Well, that cliche is so true for me (except that I'm probably NOT the only one that loves these faces!). My boys have a new love and her name is MUD! There is a big dirt patch in our back yard--right next to their pool. What happens when dirt and water from the pool mix? Ask my two boys. They would exclaim FUN!

Much to their father's dismay the love getting dirty. Dirt? Doesn't bother me one bit but it KILLS their daddy. He wants them to stay neat and clean. I have recently learned after 8 years of marriage that Brandon does not want his hands dirty and therefore, cannot understand our boys voluntarily getting theirs dirty! This is so funny to me. Who says you don't learn something new about your spouse even after so many years?

The first time he watched them playing in the dirt he tried his hardest to make them stop or make them WANT to stop. Nope. Not going to happen. The love it. Since they weren't hurting anything or anyone and were playing so good together, why fight it? I wish everyone could have seen the look on Brandon's face as they played and played and played. I think he could hardly bear to watch. That was only the first time in the mud.

 

They have since gotten much better. Better as in learning to get dirtier! Yesterday I was home with them and we went outside. We started out watering flowers and planting a few new ones. I later looked up to notice my help was "missing" and found them nowhere else but the mud hole. They were covered! Looked like they had on war paint! All I could do is laugh and think to myself how adorable those smiling faces were even under all the muck. They probably played for two hours in it, happy as pigs in (literal) mud! :) I LOVE raising boys! I smiled yesterday and thought to myself that this is one of the very many reasons I am blessed with only BOYS! Maybe it was dad that needed the girls. Ha.

Lawson hard at work.

Filling up the Cozy Coupe with...MUD!

Boys hard at work.

Here's the damage! :)

After the damage was done we took a walk to the water hose and stripped them down. Clothes went into the washer, boys were hosed off and sent straight to the bathtub and all was well with the world. Incidentally, as a side note, I wanted to add that these shoes are worth their weight in gold--especially in times like these! A quick run under the water hose and voila! Good as new! There were well worth the whole $1 I gave for them at a consignment sale! I highly recommend them--especially to moms of boys! :)