Playing in the mud

Now, I am determined to be a cool mom, at least some of the time, so when I saw the giant mud puddles forming where I drop Quinn off for school, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to let the kids play in them.

At first they thought I had gone mad, because 'it will be cold', 'we'll get wet!', 'it's all muddy!'. But when I convinced them that I would take a towel, plastic bags for them to sit on and we'd go straight home to bath afterwards, the boys warmed to the idea that it might just be fun...

So armed with the trusty 'black bikes' we went to play in the mud.

Sorry the picture quality is pretty bad.



It was really fun. Now the rest of this story is that the kids always want me to race through water puddles with my car, to create big splashes. I normally oblige, but refused to zoom in these muddy puddles with my car, because I didn't want it to get dirty. Boring I know! Anyway so while my car was at the panel beaters. I had a courtesy vehicle - a battered automatic citi golf.

On the Friday the mud puddles were particularly big and I said to Quinn, 'Come on let's race through them'. That worked well for 1 1/2 puddles, because puddle 2 was rather too deep and splashed too much and the car died. LOL. Lucky for me we were right at Quinn's school, and walking distance to the train, which is how I got to work that day... LOL.