Getting our hands dirty

It was so nice this weekend. We finally got out and took care of weeding the garden.
I did not do anything with the garden after the fall harvest so it was a little over grown.
Before pictures-

Good thing I had two eager helpers.
The Littles had so much fun exploring the dirt. The worms and slugs were their favorite. The Little Man also had fun filling his dump truck full of weeds.
After pictures-

Now I just need to fluff up all the dirt and add in some compost and it will be ready for some plants.
I am thinking of doing mostly a salad garden with carrots, radishes, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, broccoli, peas and green beans.
My oldest brother is is doing an amazing job on the garden over at the lake house. We were over there today planting broccoli, carrots, spinach, corn and zucchini.
I am looking forward to spring and summer. Today does not really feel like spring since it is so cold and overcast. I guess I packed away The Littles winter clothes too soon.

Sunshine, seeds and a salamander

Yesterday was beautiful.

I walked the mile and a half to pick up the little man from school. It was tough but I made it and I will do it again (I do feel the burn today).
Then we walked over to the park to play with some friends. When we go home the littles still wanted to play outside so we did, even though I just wanted to sit down and give my feet a rest.
It was so warm that the little lady ran around diaper free.

She enjoyed watching her brother explore but when he started having 'lots' of fun she just had to join in.



 {I just love the flip flops on wrong feet}

 The wonderful weather got me really thinking about all of the seed packets that I have that need to be planted.

 So today we went over to the lake house and I was able to start some seeds in the greenhouse. I planted tomatoes, peppers and eggplant. I have never grown eggplant before, so this is a first for me. I dont think that I have even ever ate it before.

I dont really know much about gardening at all. Everything I have learned just from talking to people and reading this site.
Next week my Holistic moms group will be chatting about gardening but I knew I had to get these few seeds started now (they should of been started a few weeks ago). I am hoping next week that I will have a little more knowledge about this subject.
While over at the lake I got to show the little what a salamander looks like. Neither one of the littles were very interested. I thought it was cool.

Its spring. I am so happy.

Peas please

The little lady and I were out picking peas.



And I guess that they looked so yummy that she just had to try one.


She reached out her little hand and grabbed one right out of my bucket.


She had fun gnawing on it for a little while. She had no idea it was food.


It will still be a while before we start solids but it was fun to pretend for a little while.

This years garden

It took a few weeks but I finally got the garden weeded and planted. It is not that it was too over grown with weeds I just had to find the time to work on it between the rain showers and a needy newborn.


With help from the little man and all of his trucks.

We enjoyed all of the wonderful vegetables that we planted last year so I decided to plant them again this year. We will have peas, green beans, carrots, radishes, and zucchini coming out of our ears soon.
I have a few other planters that I plan on filling full of lettuce and tomatoes.

I was unable to get an after shot of the garden because it started raining again. So I will just have to finish this post off with a picture of farmer little man in this Levis.

Real life

This is my life in a nut shell right now.
I have been running on auto pilot.
After two nights of not very good sleep, yet another clogged milk duct accompanied by a fever with hot and cold flashes and whole body aches I am starting to feel better.
I tried to get my garden in shape yesterday and my seeds planted before the rain but I was unsuccessful. Yesterday was a beautiful day.
I have washed about 7 or so loads of laundry in the past few days but nothing has been put away.
My sink is over flowing with dishes the hubby should of done a few days ago. We were on a roll for a while that if I had the dish washer unloaded than he would load it. I dont quite know what happened.
Our house needs a good cleaning if we are going to have people over tomorrow but I am just sitting at the computer in my pj's with the little lady on my lap eating a PB and J sandwich for breakfast. I guess that is more than I can say for the boys, they are still sound asleep in bed.
Maybe the boys will be up soon and they will help me clean or maybe I am just dreaming. I hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend.

Rain, rain go away

I understand that I do live in Washington but it still does not need to rain for a whole week. Before today I had not gone for a walk since lass Friday and I was having withdraws.
Between rain storms and since the little man is feeling better he was able to play outside for a little while.


Maybe this coming week the rain will stay away long enough so that I can plant some seeds in my garden and maybe go for a walk or two.

One tomato, two tomato

So I finally got a redish tomato on my tomato plants. Up until now the little man did not notice that they were even growing on the plants but now it is hard to keep his hands off of them.

I have to keep reminding him to leave them alone but a few days ago I was too late at reminding him and he picked it. Well.... he did not really pick it he squished it. It was not fully red and ripe but I eat it anyway (I could not let it go to waste). It tasted pretty good. Nice and sweet. Since it has been raining they have been growing like crazy and almost all of them are redish now. When I first planted them I thought they would never grow but they have surprised me.

It must be all of the little man watering that helped them to grow.

Playing with water

Now that the weather is finally getting nice the little man has learned that playing with water is fun. He has his own little swimming pool but a few nights ago since Daddy was swimming in the big pool little man got to go in also. He does not mind it when he is being held but he did not like the floaty toy.

He has also found that the watering can is a fun toy. He likes it with or without water in it. He sees me water the tomato plants every day and decided he was going to also.

I dont know why my tomatoes are not growing. I dont think that we will get any tomatoes from these plants but the little man is enjoying them.