Today is…Thursday Apr 28 2011
How do I garden with a baby and two little boys?
Planning and Strategy.
Boy #3: Galoot. Baby.
First, nurse baby.
Second, dress baby in outdoor gear.
Third, rock baby to sleep and pop him in his car seat, like so….:
Fourth, throw a blanket over him and (Fifth) put him in the least windy spot you can find:
And hope he doesn’t wake up for at least 1/2 an hour!
Boy #2: Ettin.
Plays with miscellaneous stuff and gravitates towards the newly sprouting strawberries. Thank goodness they are hardy.
(This is him showing me a salt shaker full of sand. “It’s not pepperoni mommy, just sand.”…took me a minute to understand that comment 🙂 )
Boy #1: Giant
This boy is a worker — when he is not playing. Or perhaps he is just at that wonderful age where work is play and play is work!
A half hour into our gardening endeavours, with Galoot still sleeping soundly, a fierce wind blew through our backyard.
Giant ran inside.
Ettin gallantly tried to bring in his wagon from the garden, the wind pushing him over a little with each gust:
It doesn’t really show up in this next picture, but there was a swirling of snowflakes too. Just for kicks.
We made it safely inside.
Where Galoot demonstrated some of his new tricks:
Giant and Ettin wrote up some cookie and bread recipes for me:
Oh they just melt my heart!
Then they helped mommy in the kitchen:
Mommy is learning to be tolerant of mess.
Mommy is learning that she really loves working with her boys.
Mommy is learning that in the end, everything gets cleaned up, a fun learning time is had, and I still end up with yummy bread:
Galoot desperately wanted to join us, but tolerated his bouncy for a bit:
While the dough rose (rised?), my floury boys cuddled up on the couch to read some stories:
Giant actually does a pretty good job reading the short words in the titles:
After Ettin was down for naps, Galoot settled in for a swaddle while I read with Giant:
“Hey mommy, I know what that word says!”
“Poo!”
Makes a mommy proud.