Mud Bath

Nope, we didn't have a spa treatment. Instead as we were doing our once a week watering of our orange and lemon tree (just before we were about leave to go to the park and grocery store). We watered the orange tree and then I walked away to water our lemon tree which is around a corner so I couldn't see Raja. But I came back to this sight:


He was giggling and having a blast in the mud puddle under the orange tree. I took off his clothes and shoes and he continued happily jumping in the mud. Then he looked at me, pointed at my shoes and signed "please." So I asked him if he wanted me to take off my shoes and walk in the mud, too. I had guessed right, the answer was a happy yes. And he was even more giggly when he saw me walking in the mud puddle. This little boy sure does pick the right moments to make me laugh so that I don't take life too seriously.

It reminded me that I meant to do a post about what a girl I am. I've never considered myself a girly girl, but on a trip to the Arboretum with Raja in early October, I thought he might be trying to prove to me that I am! There is a creek at the Arboretum that Raja loves to walk in. We had been a number of times and I was prepared with his swim trunks and water shoes...on previous trips I had taken a lot of other supplies, but never used any of them. So this day I'm describing I decided to take very little because we didn't have very long to be there. Bad decision. Raja was walking in the creek, found mud, loved it, kept walking further and further in until he was up to the middle of his chest. He was still in good humor, but was clear that he couldn't get out. So I pulled him out trying to not get too muddy myself. Of course, it wasn't that easy...his shoes were no longer on him. So, I fished them out....most of my arm was in the mud and it was seriously slimy. Thought I found a shoe, pulled it up and it was a big wad of gross-ness. And Raja is climbing all over me as I'm laying on the ground trying to retrieve the shoes. Needless to say, the couple of wipes we had were not sufficient to clean us up that day. We've been back to the Arboretum, but not to the creek. I'll wait until we go with Dave :)