The Garden--Take 2

O.K. I know it wasn't long ago that I posted about our garden, but I happened to go out there today to check for strawberries, and I found some. Thank goodness we finally covered them in netting to keep the birds out!
(Strawberries)
I also noticed that all the plants had grown a couple of inches since I last wrote, so I thought I would take a few more pictures.
(Zuchinni)
I also noticed while I was out there that there were quite a few weeds that had also grown a few inches (Darn it!).
(watermelon-this is 1 plant)
Well when all was said and done, I thought it looked A LOT better, even though I was DRENCHED (literally) in sweat--it was a very humid day--and a little sunburned.

Yea,

We're finally potty trained!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It took many m&m's, and lots of praise and coaxing--but we finally made it.

Sadie absolutely loves to get dressed up, anytime we're going out, or even just around the house she HAS to be wearing a dress-up dress and her sparklie black shoes. We get lots of comments, I'm not sure she really understands why though. She just thinks it's normal.

The Garden

Here is Meghan and Haley in our soon to be garden (the before picture)
Not too long after, we have the beginnings of zuchinni. . .
Some potatoes (these are so fun to plant, because all you have to do is cut up some old potatoes that have 2-3 eyes per piece that you cut, go and bury them, and in about a week and 1/2 you have plants already growing--great if you have little patience, and like to see progress quickly). These had been growing for maybe 3 weeks.
watermelons, tomatoes and strawberries. So far, we've had many strawberries ripen up, but unfortunately the birds kept getting them. We finally went and got some bird netting to cover them. It's great fun to watch the flock of birds come and sit on the fence trying to determine just how they are going to get to the strawberries. This plant is actually one of the smaller ones, but when I took this picture, the birds had already eaten several of the other RIPE strawberries, so this was the only one left.

Easter

O.K. I know I'm still playing catch-up. Maybe I'll get caught up soon. Anyways, we had a little egg hunt throughout the house.

The girls made out like bandits this year!

More Spring Break

The girls and I took a day to go to the zoo during spring break. They love the little petting zoo, as well as eating lunch real close to the animals (if you can see behind Sadie and Meghan is a giraffe).



The elephants were just down below where we ate lunch.

Belated Spring Break

During the girls spring break (yea, I know I'm a little behind) we decided to go to the Discovery Science Place, which is basically a hands on fun place.
I have lots of pictures of them there, so I might have to make a continued post later on.
Meghan got to play with HUGE bubbles.

They really had so much fun, and Caitlyn and I had fun chasing them down trying to get lots of pictures.

CuddleBug

Caitlyn, is such a sweetie. She is 10 months, soon to be 11 months, and full of spunk! She is definately a mover and shaker. She can already stand on her own for several seconds, and doesn't even hesitate to walk while holding our hand, so I know it is just a matter of time before she is walking on her own.

She is also a "cheeseball"! All you have to do to get her to laugh is start laughing, and she'll soon follow suit. I will do my best to get a great picture of her cheesy smile for the future. It's too adorable!

Sometimes Sadie will go in and talk to Caitlyn while she's in her crib, and sometimes Sadie will throw toys in there to keep Caitlyn happy. One night I walked in to check on Caitlyn, and this was how I found her--with her arms wrapped around Elmo. Mind you this is pitch black, but that is how nice this camera is, you wouldn't even know.

She is the cuddliest so far of my girls. She doesn't mind if you hold her close. She will even put her head on your shoulder. My other girls just wanted to get down and move around.