My Garden and my Kids

That's right, I started a garden!  A friend told me about this thing called square foot gardening. I didn't want to dig up a patch of our grass and till it and replace soil and test it and adjust it and deal with all that. This was the perfect solution! You should really check it out. It's awesome. So here's a pic of it.

  I planted all seeds instead of starter plants, except for the herbs in the top right corner. I hope the seeds come through.  I'm worried that our backyard doesn't get enough sun.  I guess we'll see!!  I've planted early corn, late corn, green beans, parsley, oregano, basil and thyme(all the herbs are in the same box) tomatoes, spinach, marigolds(to keep away certain bugs), cucumbers, peas, butternut squash, zucchini and green onions.  The grid is just on the surface to guide you when planting and to keep track of what's what when it comes up. We made it from 1x2 untreated wood and the box is 4 foot legnths of 1x8s.  They say to use untreated wood because the treated stuff has chemicals that will leach into the soil.  Then we stapled cardboard boxes to the bottom to kill the grass underneath so it won't grow through and sprout up as weeds.  It was fun to put together. I'm so excited to see what grows!

My kids are great. Morgan is crawling like crazy, it's the army crawl thing but she can definately get places! She's fast! Kayden is getting such a personality. He's so funny. His newest word is sit...except it doesn't sound like sit :) My baby already has a potty mouth! He'll say it a couple times and we start laughing so he'll say it more, over and over, and we have to tell him to stop! I'm just waiting until he says it in church.

Kayden loves going in to get Morgan up with me. He runs in, stands on the side of the crib and says, "Hi baby!" (No matter how hard we try he just won't say her name, he just calls her baby). Then he wants to get in the crib with her.  When it's time for bed he has to kiss her goodnight.  Yesterday I forgot and he chased us down the hall making kissy sounds.

Aw! What a good big brother!

 

 Kayden is pointing out his owie...that he got weeks ago and has long since healed. He has a great memory, seriously, he remembers everything!

 

Here's Kayden driving home from church.