Water Babies

My kiddos love the water. I love that they love the water.

Vacation

July Gloom?

There have been several uncharacteristically (yet very welcome!) cool days this summer. Just today while I was outside doing some gardening, Elliana was outside with cotton pants on!!! The doors/windows were open and it was 10:30!! I know several of you live in coastal areas, so that's normal, but for us in the valleys, it was a welcome change!

And just because she's cute:

More Garden

Can I just say that I absolutely LOVE having a garden?!?! This year was my trial year...I wasn't exactly sure that my spacing was what it should be (with some veggies it's fine, others, not so much) I wasn't sure if things were going to grow, but I wanted to give it a shot. I have to say that it has been so much fun! Everything, except for my chives (?!?!) has grown so well...and my watermelon, a little too well! I have used fresh cilantro and jalapenos for my salsa, lettuce for burgers, cucumbers for our fourth of July bbq and strawberries for a sweet treat.

The garden (notice the watermelon...it's HUGE!):
Jalapenos:

The bell peppers look so good!

The tomatoes are starting to change color:

Some more cucs on the vine:


Just about ready...maybe in tonight's salad...

My first two cucumbers and first tomato...yes, I picked it too early, I was just excited :)

poo-poo

The past two days Elliana has come up to me, pointed to her diaper and said, "poo-poo". Yesterday, when she did it for the first time, I was so confused. I didn't notice her pointing to her diaper and I couldn't figure out what she was wanting. I've never talked to her about poo-poo (beyond saying, "oh, you have a poo-poo diaper" or "let's change your poo-poo"). Anyway, when I noticed that she was pointing to her diaper I asked her if she had poo-poo and she nodded yes...sure enough, she did. This morning she came to me and did the same thing. This means little more than she knows when she has a poo-poo diaper, but it was kinda fun that she started acknowledging that needed to be changed. I felt like Noah would have stayed in his dirty diaper all day and wouldn't have cared!