How does your garden grow??

Exciting Growth! The corn is getting HIGH! Sammy is jumping high to see if he is taller than the corn.

Emma found some little ears of corn growing on some of those corn trees. Maybe they'll get bigger and we'll get to eat some in a month or so!
The tomatoes are blooming and we have had a few of the grape tomatoes ripen. Waiting on the larger "better boy" tomatoes...

Emma's end of school pool party

Mrs. Diekroeger hosted the end of school pool party in her backyard with a beautiful pool and lots of fun for the kids! Emma found it a little chilly but had a great time other than the goggles issue. Turns out I forgot the big nose-covering goggles that she wanted so it was a little hard to get over that, but otherwise we had a super time!

Here are the wrong goggles that I brought. She tried them for a while but they are just not what works.
Then we found out that one of her friends, Lilly, had some just like hers that she wanted (with the nose), so we got to borrow those for a little while.

We were really happy while we had those goggles.

Here's Emma going into the deep end.
Emily & Emma enjoyed the popsicles!
Mrs.Diekroeger also passed out the Memory books for the year. I teared up on the first page, but later was able to look at it over Emma's shoulder. It is absolutely priceless!
Aren't they super adorable? What a cute class of pre-schoolers!
We had a great year!!

We have A Bean & A Tomato!

Our little garden is growing! The tomatoes look great and the beans are coming along too. These first 2 pictures were taken May 12.

The corn is growing great. The squash is on the right side. Cool!

May 21. Sammy picked a green bean and Emma got a little grape tomato!
One of the little green bean plants (with more green beans on it!)
Some of the new tomatoes. The grape tomatoes are ripening already. The other larger versions don't have any blooms yet.

Sammy's 4th Birthday!

Sammy's actual birthday was on May 5th. We had a few neighbors over to play slip & slide to celebrate. Everyone had a great time and got really tired! The slip & slide was pretty fun too! Daddy came by to set it up and get it started!

After all the fun slipping & sliding, the kids enjoyed the snacks and we tried out the new Giant cheetoes balls! They are GIGANTIC! See. & Yummy too!

Then we brought out the bubble machine and bubbles were everywhere.
Cupcake time!

Emma the red nosed reindeer was there!

Rachael the blue nosed reindeer too!

Kendall (Emma's first friend). Gosh he's growing up!

Baby Jack. He's getting big too! :-)

Garden update

The time to transfer the garden arrived and I was out getting the clay-like ground ready for our little plants. We successfully transferred the beans, corn, squash and basil. Then we also planted the tomato plants and the green bell pepper plant that I bought.

Here are the squash plants & the beans and peas. The peas didn't make it b/c some of my helpers pulled them up thinking they were weeds.

The garden is not all that beautiful, but hopefully we will have some beautiful veggies in a few weeks!

We planted 6 tomato plants of different varieties. Can't wait for those juicy tomatoes to be here!!
These photos taken April 22.