Making a Garden

Chris, or Mr. Wonderful, as I like to call him, sports his Sacramento Kings outfit in these pictures. If he is anything like his Daddy, he will get lots of hours of pleasure from basketball in between catching bugs, lizards, snakes or any other manner of living thing.

This week our project was to build each of the girls a little garden to tend for the summer.
Below you see Chloe making her way down the path with some flowers that will be planted in the garden boxes.

Claire was a bit distracted by the "beautiful" dandelion that she saw on the way to the backyard.

Below Chloe checks out the plants that are waiting for planting. A bit later, to give Claire a little job, I asked her to count to see how many different things we had to plant. She was right on the number and I was pretty shocked. I asked her to show me what and how she had counted and sure enough, she pointed to each one, counted, and announced that we had eight different things. I think understanding that concept is pretty good for her age, 3 years and 3 months. Chloe was focused on things that "matched" whether it was two dirty hands (which were a match) or one clean hand and one dirty hand that didn't match, for example. She and Papa had a long conversation about matching things. I think I know what they are working on at pre-school!




Daddy, Papa, and Chloe hard at work preparing the boxes.

Claire, with her package of green beans below.

We put lots of leaves and mulch in the bottom of the boxes prior to adding the packaged soil. At one point I used the word "dirt" and Chloe corrected me and said, "Grandma, we call it soil."

Soil and leaves were transported both by hand and by little shovel.

Claire also worked very hard to find and dig worms to add to the garden soil. Here she proudly shows us one of her "racing worms".

Time to plant, with Papa's help.

The completed gardens. I hope that Claire and Chloe are able to harvest some veggies in the next few months.

We had a great day working with the twins and look forward to more projects in the future.

Have you planted your garden yet? The girls also experienced a two mile nature walk with their Daddy this past week near Table Mountain we are told. When they returned Claire slept from 4 PM until 6:30 the next morning. They are getting lots of fresh air and sunshine these days which is absolutely terrific! It makes up for the endless winter we seemed to have this year. Happy Spring!