I am not a Potty School Dropout.....

I thought that Davis was going to be a potty school dropout and I was really stressed about it. I hadn't even started potty training and I thought it was going to be a nightmare because of all the not so fun things I have heard about sitting your kid on a toilet, especially boys. I knew all along my main goal was to at least have him potty trained by 3, you know I didn't want to have him hanging out with the wrong crowd of kids, you know those size 6 diaper kids are trouble....just playin' :)

So, I knew that Davis' third birthday was creeping up on us in a few months and I kept this mental note that I needed to start trying to potty train Davis. One day when I noticed that his diaper stash was getting a little low, I decided to just do it. The first day was not so good at all and I went to bed that night thinking 'yep this potty thing stinks', but the second and the third day he only had one accident and after that he has never had any accidents and he wakes up in the morning dry too.....WAHOO!!!! Not bad at all.....I guess when you are ready you are ready and he was just ready!!! So, lucky us no horror stories!! Congratulations Davis you have officially graduated from potty school and have now entered the world of toilets, we are so PROUD of you!!

Mary, Mary quite contrary how does your garden grow??

I had a strange idea this year and wanted to plant a garden, don't ask me why, I just thought it would be super cool to say "yeah, I am a Gardner". Doesn't it make you sound like the coolest person ever.....

I remember being put to work as a kid in the garden that my parents always grew. I remember how I was so terrified of all the bugs and spiders that were in the plants that I had to pick. It was so scary and I would cry and freak out and my parents would force me to go and pick the veggies anyway, come on where is the sympathy mom and dad?? Well.... I decided to put my kids through the same torture so I planted a garden even though it is much smaller then the gardens my parents had, so it won't be the same type of torture, I will have to come up with something else.

I really had no idea how well this garden was going to grow but it is doing GREAT and I haven't killed anything yet, so I am very pleased. While my mom was here we used her expertise and she helped me design my garden and we put Nick to work and he built my raised beds and my mom and I did the rest. If my mom wasn't here I would have been clueless on what to do. Anyway, I went out to water my garden this morning and I saw my first vegetable. Who would have thought that seeing a little green tomato would have made my day today!! Hopefully in another month or so I should start seeing some produce!

Nick and Davis building my beds....

Once everything was planted....4 weeks ago

Amazing after 4 weeks.....this is what I planted this year.

In this bed all of my hill plants watermelon, cucumbers, zucchini and squash

In this bed my row plants butter beans, green beans and carrots. And my already plants strawberries and tomato/cherry tomatoes.

Here is my little green tomato...isn't it cute?