Yesterday

For some reason, Peter loves drinking water from the spray bottle...weirdSpiked hair
I find this picture a little creepy .

I apologize for the technical difficulties... for some reason blogger is acting
silly and making everything underlined and double spaced...

Year of Plenty??

Well, this year I decided to try a vegetable garden. I started on a pretty small scale, and had a few tomatoes, peppers, beans, broccoli, carrots, and cantaloupe plants. The beans were the first to be harvested, and I'm still getting lots of beans off the plants, which has been great. Next were the tomatoes, which also are still producing well. I had a few peppers but overall peppers didn't work too well for me. I've eaten one cantaloupe, and there are quite a few more out there but they're fairly small and don't look quite ready to eat yet. The broccoli? What a joke. Never mind the broccoli. Last week I decided to harvest the rest of the carrots - I had previously gotten one meal's worth out of the garden, and I was curious to see how much was left. The harvest was a little dismal...

These are the carrots I pickedThese are the carrots we ate
Here we have an amputee carrot
And there were even some vampire carrots in the mix
Some of these vampire carrots were on a diet
I guess the seed package did say "Baby carrots"
But these "Baby Carrots" were a little ridiculous, barely bigger than a raisin
And here we have a carrot... that isn't even there?

Amusement park...

Yesterday evening after dinner, Mike and I took Peter to the park to do some swinging and sliding. It's so nice to get some use out of the playground, being that it is so close to us! Since school has started again, the baseball games are no longer a source of entertainment for us. It was an enjoyable part of our summer, as they were almost a nightly occurrence. However, when we got to the driveway we discovered a new activity going on in the park: an aerobics class, complete with loud bouncy music and a very enthusiastic instructor. A group of about 25 or 30 ladies spent an hour getting themselves into shape and burning off some calories. We were to the park and back before they were done. Once we got home, we started doing the dishes, but were distracted by a familiar ringing... the tinkling bells of the ice-cream man! He always visited during the baseball games to cool off the hot, thirsty crowd with his frozen dairy wares. However he couldn't be refreshing any sweaty baseball players that night... why was he still around? He cycled down the road, and optimistically stopped directly across from the hard-working aerobics class, tinkling his bell expectantly. Sorry, buddy, your season is over! He didn't have any luck with this tough crowd, although we thought it was an extremely funny attempt at business!

September already?

Peter is extremely proud of himself for being able to pull
himself up... the time was long overdue for us to lower his
crib mattress anyways! Although he's sort of able to do a lurch-crawl forwards, he still
ends up going backwards a lot of the time. (It doesn't help that we
don't have much carpet in our house). This picture turned out pretty
blurry, which is too bad, but I just love his expression.
Spiderweb out on the deck
Up close... webs are just amazing to look at
He LOVES his mobile... when we get him up in the morning,
he's excited to see us but more excited, I think sometimes, about
the prospect of being picked up and being closer to the mobile.
I guess he lays there staring up at it and he just NEEDS to have it!
He was complaining a bit after I put him down for a nap one
afternoon, but he quieted down after a few minutes so I didn't
want to go in there until he was asleep. I checked in on him, and I
was surprised and amused to find him like this. He had flipped onto
his tummy (he always sleeps on his back, and still only rolls occasionally
by accident) and wedged his legs between the bars.
He slept surprisingly well!