Guess what I got to clean up today?

I didn't think you be able to guess, so I included this picture. Yes, I am a mean mom. I make my kids suffer so I can take pictures of their misery so I can blog about it. So sue me.

I let Jonathan and his buddy Porter play outside this morning and I kept telling them to stay away from the garden area. With all the rain we got it has become a mud bog. They didn't listen and "miss follower pants" followed and then got stuck and then tipped over face first. Fun times!

WoRdLeSs WeDnEsDaY

Mud bath and facial anyone?

Last night I was reading Fablehaven. If you haven't read it yet, then you must. It's so good! Anyway, my mom called. We talk every Sunday. I answered the phone and began to talk to her. I was not worried about being "unavailable" to anyone else in the house, because I thought that daddy had it covered. He had Jenny and Jonathan out jumping on the tramp, and he and the two older girls were playing on the piano while Sidney crawled around in the living room. Anyway, like I said, I didn't worry about what anyone else was doing. Probably my first mistake. Mom and I were talking and Mike comes into the room and whispers that I need to come see something. I whisper back that I am talking. He says,"No, really, you need to come see something." Whatever, it better be good.
I follow him outside and he points to Jonathan on the tramp who is COVERED in mud. Oh yeah, and since the kids were all ready for bed, he is also wearing his JAMMIES!
I couldn't help it. I started to laugh. My mom asks me what is funny and I am trying to explain the scene that I am seeing. She and I giggle together for a sec and then I say, "I bet that I know where he made the mud at. I bet he turned on the faucet in the flowerbed and made mud." I turn that direction to look at the flowerbed and SURE enough! That is where he made his little mud bog at. We currently don't do much with this small flowerbed. It houses the electrical box thingy for the sprinklers and we don't have anything planted in it yet, so we have just been letting Jonathan dig in there with his toys and stuff. Apparently he has moved beyond just digging.But the funniest was yet to come. The fence right next to the mud bog is also COVERED in MUD!! I couldn't help it. At that point I just bust out laughing so hard! And it's hard to be mad at your kid and enforce any discipline when you are laughing, just in case you all wondered. When I was explaining to my mom about the mud on the fence, Jonathan piped up, "I was painting it brown, Mom".


So there you have it. Apparently we needed a brown fence and Jonathan gave himself a spa treatment!

What can I say. He is ALLLLLLLL BOY!