Hello again!

It's been a long time since I've posted, so I'm not sure who is left out there that might actually read this! Life has changed a lot in the past 6 months. My focus has shifted somewhat, the kids have all gotten bigger, my husband has a new job, and I have an additional job. Lots of exciting things going on in the Hundred Acre Wood!

However, one of the most recent exciting events to happen around here lately is that little Whinnie has lost her 2 front teeth! One right after the other! They have been loose for quite a while...I mean REALLY loose. The other night Whinnie came up to me in the kitchen and asked,

"Mom, can I have a paper towel... puhleeese?"

me,

"Sure hon, here you go."

Whinnie,

"Thanks mom"

Then a few minutes later she walks up to me all excited and says,

"Look, my tooth came out!"

me,

"What? Did you pull it out yourself?"

Whinnie,

"Well, Dad helped me..."

Apparently, my husband was walking by the bathroom and saw her trying to pull her own tooth out. He stopped and watched for a minute and then asked her if she wanted him to help her. She said, "Ok" and stuck her chin out so he could get a good grip, and out the tooth popped! It hardly bled and she was SO brave!














She's only 4 1/2 and she's already lost her first 2 teeth. The permanent teeth have started coming in too. They grow up so fast!

Tomatoes, and cucumbers, and peas, oh my!

For the past few weeks we have been working on relocating our garden for this year and getting it planted. Unfortunately, between the rainy weather and various trips and activities we've had, it has been a s l o w process.

We had what we lovingly referred to as "the mound" in the sunniest corner of our yard. At one point it had pretty plants and flowers all over it, but a year or so ago, we decided to dismantle the mound because our young children could not resist playing on it and the backside of the mound was pretty steep.

Since then, we have gradually been ripping out plants and moving dirt a wheel barrow load at a time. Slow and steady.

We finally got it as flat as we wanted it (which is actually not flat at all but is sufficient for our purposes).

Next we had to move our two existing raised beds across the yard. We did that last weekend. We also had three small dresser drawers that my mom gave us to repurpose as raised beds, so we set those up as well and filled them all with mulch.

After a trip to Home Depot we filled all the beds with a variety of vegetable plants and bordered them with yellow marigolds.

We are still planning to place hazelnut shells or rock around the beds to clean it up and keep the snails and slugs out, but it's starting to take shape!

It's raining again. The plants are loving all of the water! It looks like we got them in just at the perfect time. Now we wait...

I'll post pictures soon...


Kim