catching up again!

This is how Zoe feels about table food... she's been wearing her bows all week, they finally stay in her hair! SO cute!!
Here she is eating fistfulls of ground up chicken nuggets (that Joshua didn't want) with her 4.5 teeth
Here she is modeling the poncho that Rosemarie made for her. It fits perfectly and she'll be able to wear it for a while. My favorite detail is how Rosemarie left a little extra room at the neck for her 90th percentile head.
Zoe's not the only one growing up fast... here's Joshua pushing his new John Deere tractor stool. We got it for him so that he can get on/off the potty and reach to wash his hands. Notice how he's not wearing any pants - we're down to 2 diapers a day when we're at home, one at naptime and one at bedtime. He hasn't had an accident all week!Here's an updated view of the deck and a few of my projects. The border by the fence has day lilies, butterfly bushes and magnolia bushes that were here when we moved in. Between the day lilies and magnolia bushes are my veggie gardens, and in front of the butterfly bushes are pink petunias that I put in last weekend. Up close is one of two hanging baskets with petunia, verbena and vinca vine. We'll see how it looks when it fills out. The larger pot on the deck has mint, salvia and lemon thyme and the smaller has a petunia and stevia seeds.

Here we have some light & hot pink begonias planted among daylilies that will be yellow, and under the river birch are hot pink dianthus and yellow marigolds.
petunias, imaptients, verbena and vinca vine. I will of course be taking pictures when all these fill out.

I know this window box doesn't look like much. On the left is mint and on the right is red salvia. The rest will be herbs - there are tarragon, stevia, rosemary and oregano seeds in there. Maybe I'll actually use them, maybe they'll just look pretty. The planter on the deck, constructed by my wonderful hubby, has pink petunias and some lavendery blue things I can't remember the name of now. Behind those will be a butterfly bush to replace the one we had to dig up to put the deck in. We liked watching the butterflies and hummingbirds from the kitchen window so hopefully this one will grow quickly!

more impatients, petunias and vinca vine

tulips from the garden in the front yard. No picture yet, but in there now are some red & purple petunias and verbena, and I have a bunch of red salvia to put in once the rain stops. Joshua and I planted some gladiolus bulbs a couple months ago and they're starting to come up now so we'll see how those look by the front steps.