How Does Your Garden Grow.

With silver bells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row.NO! Much to my dismay I am not much of a green thumb. I kill things quickly and thoroughly. Seriously, I potted new plants the week before out of town company came. I watered and fertilized and they were dead before the next weekend! I'm sure some of it might be my lack of patience. Okay, maybe all of it! I tried to plant flowers in the spring with seed packets from my Mother-in-law. After getting up and down to retrieve Little Moo from the street (relax we live on a cul-de-sac!) or the garage and not making much progress planting the tiny little seeds I just sprinkled the seeds all over the flower beds and convinced myself that it was fine since we were even sure anything would grow in the soil we have anyway. Shocker, nothing grew. Not only did nothing grow, but I planted some lily and dahlia bulbs (that I purchased at a store)  and they didn't even so much as sprout. To make things worse I let some weeds get out of hand because I wasn't sure if they were the things I actually planted..

And then.

 

The bachelor buttons and one Zinnia (I think) bloomed in my flower beds. I was so excited that I was able to grow something! Not only that, but my Mother-in-law also was kind enough to bring some more dahlia bulbs that I planted in our back yard. I very carefully planted them, even researching the correct way to do it ( I didn't really want to be a complete failure to the Mom-in-law) and low and behold all of them grew into plants and a couple have even bloomed! Hurray for my wonderful flowers! To be fair I should probably give them all the credit, they were resilient to my efforts to deny them their very purpose. To you flowers I say BRAVO!   

 

My only problem now is that grasshoppers (I think) are making a tasty meal of my very pretty flowers. As if they didn't have enough to overcome!

 

 

Baby Cousin Is Here!!!

Little Moo is very excited about his new baby cousin who came last Saturday. Zippercow and myself are pretty ecstatic as well! We are so excited for my brother and his wife. This is a new chapter of their life together and of course, we are an Aunt and Uncle!

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Does. Not. compute.

Little Moo was pretending to be a robot (where he learned this we aren't really sure) but Zippercow has taught him that robots say "DOES. NOT. COM.PUTE." so now he has been wandering around saying that for a couple days now. It is fun to listen to him play by himself and with his friend. They play more interactively than they did before and there is a lot more dramatic play than there used to be. A lot of it involving McDonalds which is strange since the number of times Little Moo has been there can be counted on one hand. It is fun to listen to them play just the same. So many words!!!

 

In other news we have finished the room, just need to get the computer back in the there as well. We are a bit worn from that project. We may not fair well with lots of construction in our home, good thing there isn't any major construction to be done!

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I'm Not Coloring The Cat!!!!

We've been busy, busy! I realize that isn't a good excuse, truth be told I am terrible at keeping anything updated. But before I get into what we've been up to, a cute little story!

Little Moo was "clipping coupons" with me cutting his paper and "coloring" like mommy but the cats wouldn't leave him alone (this is mostly due to the catnip being stored in the same drawer as his marker box) after fussing about Wampus a few times I explained to him that the cats just like the way they smell. I immediately realized my mistake as Little Moo turned his back to me. I asked him what he was doing (assuming he was smelling it himself) and he quickly turned and said "I'm not coloring the cat!". I looked down and Wampus looked just as guilty. Little Moo was letting Wampus "smell" the marker which of course was just fine with him!

Aside from coloring kitties we've been pretty busy. Zippercow has been repairing and painting our bedroom. Out of necessity. Our old AC that was in the wall started leaking inside and we couldn't figure out what was causing it or how to fix it (the thing predates the internet!) So we put a new one in. I shouldn't  say we, it was all Zippercow. He has been very busy reframing, dry walling, mudding, taping and painting. I've done what I could to help, but someone has to keep Little Moo out of the middle of everything. In the meantime our bed and computer have been in the middle of the living room. Not ideal living conditions, but Zippercow is almost done! We may even be back in our room by our 4th Anniversary!

We also had some out of town guests which we had a blast with, too bad they are allergic to the cats, tenting it in our backyard only works in the summer. We have also been in weddings, thrown baby showers and had a pretty fun birthday party for Little Moo, and have been spending quite a few evenings with Zippercow's sister and brother-in-law. Sadly they moved back to the western side of the state so we won't be seeing them as much. We already miss you Carrie and Caleb!

My latest venture has been savings through coupon clipping. I love the thrill of the thrift! So if you get coupons you don't use, feel free to share them! It has given me a challenge which I sorely needed and also save our family money, not too shabby.

I'm sure I'm missing a bunch of things in the middle there but we've mostly been keeping super busy with stuff around the house and with our friends and family. I'll add some more  photos.as soon as I find our cables to upload the photos!

 

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Getting Around

Grammy found a great deal on some grow-with-you type skates and all the other safety equipment needed for a  rolling good time.

I'm not sleepy!!!

Our Little Moo has been refusing to nap. This is fine if he truly is not tired but most days he crashes in a melted puddle of toddler, just long enough to rejuvenate and want to stay up really late. And while quiet time was working for awhile it appears to be just toddler wrangling time. What exactly do other parents do when their children can no longer be contained by gates or doors with "child proof" knobs????? Anyhow,  I thought I'd share another few fun pictures  of him sleeping.

Summer's Coming

The Shed is up!!!! Thanks to a couple of our friends with trucks and trailers we have a shed now and it is all put together. So now we have more room in the garage and less stuff hanging around in the back yard making it look junkie. Now we just have to figure out how to keep the yellow jackets from making their homes in there and we are set! Things are finally coming together with the house. Its unfortunate, there is so much we want to do and just not enough resources to do it. Of course I'm aware that is the case for most people so I shouldn't complain too much. So I won't.

Last time I mentioned that Little Moo wasn't really napping but occasionally he crashes during some hard play. His newest craze is to pull the sheets off his mattress and push the mattress off the box springs, dump ALL of his toys and pull things of the hangers. It makes for a long clean up sessions. Everyday. Sometimes a couple times a day...but here are a couple pictures of him falling asleep during play, they're pretty cute.





Zippercow and I are looking forward to our upcoming yard sale extravaganza. We go to a community yard sale every year. I don't know why we like it so much, but we do. Most of the time we don't even buy anything, but just walk around looking for hours. Good exercise, it is usually sunny and we might find something we are looking for, how can that not be fun? Also it is the start of our very busy couple of months between Father's Day, my birthday, Independence Day, a wedding, Little Moo's Birthday, a baby shower, out of town guests and all the other stuff that comes up in between it is going to be most busy. But we should know better, it is like this every summer, it just feels more hectic because the older we get the faster the time seems to go.