One of the big changes for us moving from the South to the Great White North is the greatly reduced growing season. But unlike when we lived in the south, we now have an abundance of space for gardening and lovely soil!

We have embraced square foot gardening and have a total of six 4′x4′ beds. The first two of which are deeper beds for root crops. This is also where we’ve planted our cold tolerant/early plants (radishes, lettuce, cabbage, etc).

We hit the friends school half off plant sale on mothers day and built the remaining four beds. Our purchases that day filled in about 60% of the 4 newly built beds, but there’s still plenty of space to go.

We are very excited about the possibility of a summer full of fresh produce & teaching the Lentil all about growing your own!

Happy belated Mother’s Day!

Are you talking to me?

Yummy! Muffins with Mom!

Mother's Day Present From the Lentil

our dear friends A & E had a little baby boy yesterday morning. welcome baby O. you are quite blessed to have fabulous parents and quite possibly the best big brother.
this exciting news led to the following discussion with the Lentil this morning:
me: see look at baby O (showing her his picture). isn’t he cute?
L: yeah
me: hopefully we get a chance to see him sometime soon.
pause … pause …
L: I want to go to the hospital.
me: (confused) why do you want to go to the hospital?
L: to see the kids
… I then explained to her that hospitals are for sick people and that O and his mommy A were not sick and that baby O was was born at home just like she was.

then I had to wonder who is teaching this? why does my 2 year old think that babies are born in hospitals?

oh I know … it’s likely that someone in her class had a little brother or sister and they talked about going to the hospital …

but wow amazing how young kids are when they are picking up these social paradigms … good thing we have many years to teach her differently.

the Lentil is a little car crazy. now she’s always loved vehicles and trucks and one of the frequent car games is to point out and name mini loaders, big rigs, dump trucks etc while we are in the car. and so I guess it’s not surprising that the first movie we showed her was Cars. and we probably shouldn’t be surprised that she’s a liitle crazy in love with the movie and the characters. and I’ll admit that BJ and I probably have gone a little overboard with buying her Cars stuff … but she does play with them a lot!

she also gets to take someone with her when we go out … yesterday she decided to take Mater …

today is the last day of our time off from work. tomorrow we both head back to our respective jobs and the Lentil returns to “school” full-time. it’s been nice but all such things eventually end.
we took the Lentil to a huge indoor playground for some major romping (it is litterally subzero here today). she had a great time and became very brave climbing high and putting up with the larger rougher children. she’s such a sweetie.
now we are running errands then it’s home to veg and clean a little.

Happy New Year to you & yours from us & ours. 2009 was a year full of adventure & excitement … and 2010 promises to be all that and more.

we took the lentil to the local mall’s indoor playground to help her shake sone of her sillies out and run, jump, and yell a bit.

Saturday August 29 2009

This morning we bought a wagon and headed to the fair. We all had a great time - The Lentil particularly enjoyed the carousel.

Of course she fell asleep right after we purchased the ride tickets so BJ and I walked around and looked at exhibits while she napped in the wagon. After she woke back up she got to ride a horse, a bunny, and a deer.

So we’ve closed on the house & have been moving over slowly from the apartment. We have till the end of July to be out of the apartment so we are taking our time — makes for a pretty nice move all things considered.

Just a few pictures – photos of the inside if the house will come as we get stuff put away – no need for photos if boxes and crap!

Swing Time Fun

Dinner with Daddy

I know this isn’t the best picture — what with the back lighting and all — but I love it … they were sitting cross legged – face to face both in jeans and no shirt eating ribs off of BJ’s lap … it was so sweet!

Happy Easter to you and yours.

We enjoyed a little indoor living room egg “hunt” with the Lentil today … much fun … and generally just had a nice lazy stay at home Sunday.  Enjoy the photos!

The Lentil would, of course, like to thank all who added to her piggy this Easter!

A Little Lentil Attitude!

Budding Audiophile

All her eggs back in her basket …

Playing with a car from one of her eggs …