She's Standing!

Yesterday evening Kilynn started doing this:

The girl in red shirt is our neighbor that is over all the time.

She doesn't actually make it around to standing up in this next one, but I think it's worth posting anyway for the face she makes at the end.

Garden Pictures

I finally got around to taking some pictures of our garden since I was talking about it in my last post. I wish I would have taken pictures earlier before we let our grass turn brown (oops) and before we harvested our peas, spinach, and radishes. There are gaps in our garden now where we have taken out those plants. We have replanted one of the empty places with cabbage and we have to think about what else to replant in the other spots. The weird thing about this area is that you can plant winter crops. It will be fun to experiment with that! Our garden consists of the terrace lining the back of our yard and four raised beds that Joseph put in last spring. The pictures are in order if you were to go out our back door and look from the left to the right.

Green beans above and strawberries below

top row- green beans, cucumbers, squash, zucchini. bottom row- tomatoes. Next year I need to remember to cage the tomatoes up. They are all flopped over and some of the stems have broken off due to too much weight.

corn and a pumpkin plant to finish row. The raised bed has broccoli, beets, and a row of carrots.

The second raised bed used to have radishes in the empty spot, but now there are a few cantaloupe plants. The rest of the bed is onions. The third raised bed used to be half carrots and half peas, but we harvested the peas and had to take the plants out. The last raised bed has cabbage growing where spinach used to be and the rest is lettuce.

I just found these next two pictures. I took them in June. It's so nice to see that green grass!

Summer is my Favorite!

Summer is definitely my favorite season and it always has been. It is my preferred season because of gardens. I love the feeling of being able to walk outside and pick from an assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables. The previous two summers lacked in this area since we lived in an apartment and had limited space to grow things. We did always try growing plants out on our deck in pots, but it didn't work so well. We also tried a community garden, but much of the produce was stolen. This year is looking a lot different. We are having success with our garden this year and the majority of our meals are coming from it. Anybody need zucchini or squash?

This is my favorite picture of Kilynn right now. It really shows her personality. You can tell she's going to be a sassy little girl. She is wearing beet puree lipstick.

I think winter is the perfect time to have a baby because they are ready to eat solids by the time the garden is producing. Kilynn has eaten pureed spinach, peas, carrots, beets, squash, zucchini, and will be eating beans soon from our garden. A friend gave us a baby pool for Kilynn. She loves splashing around in it and spends the whole time pulling herself up on the sides of the pool so that she can sit down as hard as she can and make big splashes. It's another reason to love summer! My Mom made this dress for Kilynn out of white eyelet. It's a great summer dress. Thanks Mom! You did a great job!

The only problem with the dress is this:

The bow never stays in for very long before this happens. I have to tie a double knot, but then I can't get the bow to look as pretty.