The Snow is Blue...and...That's Cow Poo

Now that life is somewhat normal, I have been trying to play more with Peyson. Just us. One on one. So one day last week I promised him that when daddy got home he could watch baby sister and we could go out and play in the snow. I always get so bored much sooner than he does so I had to get creative to pass the time away. I remembered when I was little and my mom was a primary leader, for our primary activity we made snow sculptures and "painted them" with koolaid. Well I HATE koolaid so we don't have any. So we used food coloring in water instead. I filled a pitcher with blue water and got a squirt bottle. We headed outside and the snow turned blue!Such easy entertainment...he loved it! But of course the water ran out before he thought we should go inside...so we took a walk. What little boy doesn't LOVE puddles?Usually I cringe at the sight of puddles and mud and the thought of the clean up...but he had snow clothes on...they are waterproof right?...and I take myself WAY too seriously and need to chill!...so I let him run in this really cool stream of water...I thought it was pretty cool that the entire ground was covered in snow...except for this stream of water. Then as I watched Peyson run up and down over and over I watched it splash on the clean white snow...it was strangely much lighter than the mud in the first lone puddle. As we started walking back home I had him make snow angels to try to clean off some of the mess...and that is when I smelt it...memories from the past when I lived on dairy farms came back...that smell...awesome...I just let my kid run through a stream of cow poo! So much for being chill:) We went straight to the basement and put everything in the washer right away! Holy Moly!