This and That

Gardening ventures...

Part I:  The Easter Garden.  The kids and I made this based on something I'd seen on a blog.  Was supposed to grow grass.  The soil was only about an inch thick, which means that it needs to be watered about 10 times per day to stay moist enough to germinate the seed.  Didn't happen!  But we did enjoy telling the Easter story and putting a 'body' in the tomb on Friday, closing it up, and at breakfast on Easter morning the stone was rolled aside, the body was gone and the wrapping lying to the side.  Excellent visual!

Part II:  Bullied by Owen and Mommo into gardening (Ha ha!).  Black thumb as I am, my family members have somehow coerced me into gardening this summer.  We have sprouted seeds.  We have dug up the yard, and last weekend have planted the seeds.  I do believe that Asher's feet may be a bigger threat than weeds and varmints put together.  So I am trying to keep him off of our veggies.  The ones that made it into the garden were snow peas, green beans, chard, carrots, red peppers, squash, cucumbers, and perhaps radishes?  Who knows what we'll actually get.  Asher knocked our seed beds onto the floor at one point and it was fruit basket upset (vegetable seedling upset, actually).  So we may end up with something entirely different than we think in our neat little rows!

Dad and Eden after church:

Owen and Asher on the way to a Peter Pan-themed birthday party.  Boys were invited to wear pirate costumes if they had them.  It was a friend Owen's age, so he got to wear our pirate costume from the costume box.  Asher couldn't go without costume, so he went as the veterinarian...to care for the crocodile after he consumed Capt. Hook??