Dirt, what dirt? I'm sure my children are acceptably clean.

Yes, I am one of "those mothers" who let their children run wild, play in the mud, and get really dirty.

Morgan's new Pooh and Piglet dress was broken-in by sliding head first onto the muddy ground. And true to her "mini-me" style, her feet were twice as dirty as her dress.

What you can't quite see here is the mud all over Kenna's face from doing just as her sister did. When she went down the slide head-first, she landed on her face. I enjoyed cleaning the mud out of her nose as she came and blew it on my jacket! Kenna is a shoe girl, like her dad, so the one place I didn't need to wash on her was her feet.

Let's just say the bath water was a nice shade of taupe this evening.