Amelia Takes On the World

Just thought I’d try to capture a few fun things Amelia does right now while they are fresh in my memory.

- She is really good at saying ‘thank you mommy’ – in the most adorable voice. When you say ‘your welcome’ – she then adds ‘welcome’.

- She is starting to put sentences together. Last night it was ‘mommy said Elmo sleeping’ and this morning it was ‘be-bug on shirt’ (we were discussing how she had a ladybug on her shirt)

- When she says ‘pasta’ she says ‘ze pasta’ like she is French

- She loves to help water the plants outside and luckily they are big enough now it doesn’t matter that she is too gentle – though half the time she pours the water onto the deck to play in anyway (pictures of said huge garden below)

- She likes to ‘tickle’ us

- She is getting into the concept of friends – if you ask her who her friends are its ‘Carter, Davis, Graham’ – the boys in her room. Sometimes its ‘Carter – friend, Davis – friend, Graham – friend’.

- She knows who other kids’ parents are – she runs up to Carter & Davis’ parents and asks for them (they are twins), same with Grahams mom ‘Miss Heather’ who she also asks for…

- Most every answer is ‘no’ even if she then proceeds to do it/want it

- She has what I would consider a really good memory for a toddler. She’ll remember things for a month or more ago, like that there was a dvd player that played baby signing times on our dresser (it had been put away), and ask for it. Or when we went to the cabin she kept looking for her kaykay and dog that should be there (normally they are – last she saw them there was Easter so two months ago?).

- She loves animals – I might have a vet on my hands. She really enjoys when we find frogs around our house to look at and giggles with glee when they hop around

There are so many more cute things, but these are at least a few of the ones I’d like to remember right now.

In addition, you may remember we planted a garden. Well first we planted some pea seeds that sprouted on Mother’s Day.

Then within a few days we had…

So we decided to plant a vegetable garden.  My lovely husband bought everything as part of my Mother’s Day present and the weekend after Mother’s Day we got to planting.    Here is the planted garden – around mid-May. (These  pics come from my iPhone so unfortunately not as good quality).

You’ll see the beans on the left, small little zucchinis come next.  The third one has a tomato seedling (grape) in the back and a couple cantaloupe seedlings in the front (we didn’t know what we were doing – research after the fact probably said we shouldn’t have combined the two but oh well).  And finally we had planted one more grown up tomato plant so we could see results quicker.  It already had one tomato growing well, and another started.  Notice how its well short of the top ring of the support it has around it.   Also take notice of how short the grape tomato seedling is next to it.

So less than a month later – and I am amazed. I guess I underestimated nature!  I’ve never grown veggies so it was a shock to me how fast these suckers grow.  I can’t even keep them close enough to take in one picture on the iPhone.

Here are the beans – they’ve made it to the trellis and are working their way around and up.  I think it said to expect beans to start appearing in 6 – 8 weeks so that’s another 3 weeks away.   While not as impressive as the others, these were also the only ones that started from actual seeds.

These are the tomato plants (and the vine thingy you see growing in the bottom right pot is the cantaloupe – we are guessing the cantaloupe will end up growing on the deck itself on the vine).    The one that was already well started has grown up above the top ring and we’ve had to put extra support in there.  Last count was 15+ tomatoes  growing – none have started to turn red though.   The grape tomato plant – remember it – it used to be shorter than the other plant.  While its not as bushy – it wins on height for sure.   Its a good foot taller than the other tomato plant.

And then there is the zucchini.  Do you remember how tiny of seedlings we planted?  See above – they are tiny!  And this is the jungle that has since grown.  No fruit yet but there are some buds that I believe will be flowers and then fruits soon.  I’m in shock at this one.

So that’s the garden, which Amelia helps me take care of (and my husband of course!  he is great with it, helping with support and ties and more!).

I hope you enjoyed hearing about Amelia and our garden.

Baby Momma

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