We haven’t posted lately. . . .this little garden of ours has been consuming all of our free time (not to mention we misplaced our camera in our gardening wagon for about 10 days). Now granted we don’t have a ton of free time, but what we do have goes to the garden. The other day we had a particularly big gardening day! About every other day we go to Nana and Papa’s to water the garden. . . it gives us a chance to check in on them and take a look at what’s happening in the dirt. I have to say this garden thing has been a great idea. It has given everyone a chance to talk about something other than the same ole’. It gives me something to do while Thee runs their football-field-of-a-yard. And it is a great learning tool for my little investigator.
On this particular day, we discovered someone or something had been in our garden. The tops of our tomato plants had been eaten off, and our little detective immediately went into investigation mode. I showed him the tomatoes in question. He responded, “It must’ve been somethin’.”
I pointed out the tracks in the dried mud…He looked up to the right and put his finger on the corner of his mouth ( I kid you not) and said, “Some guy’s been in here.”
I said, “What about a deer?”
He answered back, “Me solved mystery!”
We then proceeded to weed our little plot and try to discern if the eggplant had sprouted. We clearly identified the carrot sproutlings, but we’ve given up on the eggplant …we’ll buy that at the farmer’s market.
We also recruited daddy (on his way home from work) to help us put up a fence. In general it was a great day, and there was very little t.v.
As Thee and I were sitting under the shade tree at the end of our day, I asked, “ So what have you learned about gardening?”
He said, “The corn growing. It really growing. The sun burns you. The shade is cold. Me sink in da’ mud. . .Mommy save me. And hawks.” (There are some hawks out there along with a ton of other birds.)
“Anything else?”
“Me a Jedi Knight!”
Every time I am feeling like I am some kind of mother, I am brought back to reality.
Reality lesson for today: Yeah, mom the gardening is good, but it will never compete with Star Wars.
*editor's note: these picture are from about two weeks ago. Our garden has progressed greatly since then. Watch for new posts.
Playing monkey:
Not letting me get water up my nose:
Or just being you:
Happy Father's Day to the Best Daddy in the world!
Not letting me get water up my nose:
