Swamp Thing

I joked about being a Spartan mother last night at baseball because D was barefoot.  Maybe that isn't so funny when all you know about Sparta is the movie 300.  I got a weird look from the person I was talking to.  But look at this:

 Swamp Thing, 2003

And this:

We started IJ out young and now look at him:

 Swamp Thing, Yesterday

He is now passing this vital activity on to his baby brother, just as his older sister passed it on to him:

 D's first walk in the muck, 2011

D is so lucky he has a brother like this:

When you see them barefoot and covered in mud at the pond, taking them barefoot to baseball doesn't seem that big of a deal!