Our poor pitiful garden

(Clark says "Now why would you call our garden pitiful?")

This morning when Bailey and I returned from Visitation Day at preschool, Daddy came over and told us how great our edamame plant is doing. He and Bailey planted 4 seeds and he told us we have about 7 flowers on each plant. Well, we go outside and take a peek. This is what we saw...



The leaves are all shriveled and brown. I'm thinking our edamame is going to end up looking like our pumpkins. So sad, but I'm trying not to rain on their parade.



Now our kabocha is looking pretty good! Healthy looking green leaves, thick stem and a baby kabocha! Can't wait to cook it up! YUM! :)

Meeting Bailey's new preschool teacher

Today Bailey's new small group preschool teacher came over for a home visit. Her name is Giovana (pronounced Joe - vanna). She came over with a t-shirt for Bailey, a book for Mommy and Daddy, a list of stuff we need to bring on the first day of school and a book for Bailey too! I think she spent a little over half an hour here chatting with Bailey, getting to know her likes, read her the book she gave her and answering any questions we had too. How great is it to have your kid's preschool teacher stop by to introduce herself before school begins!? Talk about helping her ease into school. Tonight they have an orientation for parents and tomorrow they have an hour class for me and Bailey to attend - again to help ease into school. We'll see where her cubby is, check out the classroom and have circle time. Next Tuesday she'll start preschool. I just LOVE this place!

Giovana and Bailey

Meadowlark t-shirt

Parent handbook and a storybook for Bailey

and the band played on...

This morning the kids were banging on anything that would make noise saying they were a band. So I pulled out some small paper plates and paint supplies so we could make shakers! We went outside to paint our plates and let them dry in the sun. While they were drying they had to search around the yard for things to put in their shakers. We tested different things and they decided what they wanted to use. Bailey wanted to make a "quiet" shaker and she filled hers with leaves and seed pods. Gregory filled his with rocks, leaves and seed pods. We glued them together and decorated them with stickers. After we were all finished we turned on some music and marched around the house!

Tree House Bugs

The kids got a bunch of Klutz books from their auntie and we've been enjoying them these last few weeks. Today we worked on the Tree House Bugs. They are little fairy bugs made from pipe cleaners, beads and cardboard wings and hats. Quite cute. It even comes with a little tree house that can be decorated with stickers and cardboard furniture. Great fun! (Especially when it's 103 degrees outside! YIKES!)

Mini Vacation

Last week I talked Clark into taking a mini vacation. He had some vacation days he's been wanting to use to I had him take off a few now and a few after Labor Day when we have a bunch of orientation meetings for Bailey's preschool. We called Bachan to make sure they were free and planned our trip. I've written three separate blog entries, but I think they'll be posted backwards so I added what day of our vacation we are on. We left Friday morning at 5am and came home at 9pm on Sunday. We got home in 4 1/2 hours (includes two stops!) Not sure how Clark did that, but we were sure happy to be home. Vacations are great, but it sure is nice to be home.

I only posted a few photos, but you can check our photo slide shows for more. We had such a great time and I think we took over 100 pictures in 3 days!!