26 feet and 72 square feet

26 feet = the number of feet (big and little) at Sunday morning's playdate

72 square feet = the size of our garden

This weekend was full of stuff. It's amazing how much there is to do each weekend - fun and chores. Saturday morning the boys & I went to the Y and then Eli & I worked on the grid for our square foot garden. He was such a good helper.

Sunday morning we went to Noah's house for a playdate. It turned out to be a big fun play date with 26 feet there: toddlers, siblings and Moms - Eli (with me & Cole), Noah (with Robin & Kylie), Stella Dot (with Amy), Maddie (with Janet and Mason) and Savannah (with Andrea). Unfortunately Savannah had to leave early but the rest of the toddler gang had a lot of fun. It was a little chaotic but everyone seemed to have fun. The big adventure was bike riding. They enjoyed riding in the street in front of Noah's house and then the boys, Eli & Noah, found a magnificent mud puddle. I convinced Robin to just let them play - boys will be boys - even though Noah was wearing a brand new white shirt. There's nothing more that I love than boys just being boys. =) The girls were worried and Stella Dot and Maddie were charged with trying to get the boys back on their bikes and out of the mud. It took a while but they all rallied back at the driveway and then it was time to clean up. The dirty ones stripped down and got hosed off - we had to borrow clothes from Noah to stayed clothed. The toddlers then went to Noah's room to play and every once in a while we'd hear a "Mommy" or a cry or something and then someone would run up to check things out. I think the Moms did a great job of Group parenting and letting the kids work some things out on their own. A yummy lunch and some backyard play time later, we took the chaos away from Noah's house. (Thanks for lunch Robin & Amy!!)

The bicycle gang - (L-R) Maddie, Stella Dot, Noah, Eli

Oooooh, mud

So much fun to play in

Moms and Babes - (L-R) Robin & Kylie, me & Cole, Janet & Mason

The standoff between girls and boys over the mud puddle

Eventually the boys rode away

Happy dirty

getting clean

The hose was a fun treat for the boys

How many monkeys jumping on the bed?

This was our "car" driving to the beach. We pretended we were going and talked about what we would do when we got there.

Lunch - could not get one single shot of them all looking in the same direction.

Just a few minutes from Noah's house, Eli was OUT

and so was Baby Cole

Last night (Monday), Eli & I finished up the grid for our garden - we had run out of lath strips. Tonight we worked on planting. We transplanted peppers, onions, tomatoes and cucumbers. Then we planted some seeds: onions, green beans, lima beans, carrots, corn and lettuce. In two weeks, we'll do another planting so things are staggered and not ready to harvest all at once. We have 72 square feet - not all planted yet - that we hope will yield lots of yummy food. Stay tuned!!

Tonight's planting - I think this was lima beans.