Holy Moly Sweet Potatoes

Some of you may know that I am a very enthusiastic gardener.  Some years my yield just doesn't measure up to my enthusiasm.  But this year!  Well, first of all, check out my spring garden.

I believe I took these pictures in June.  Notice the lovely row of beets and the nice little hills of sweet potato seedlings I had just planted.

Proof that picky eaters do make exceptions for purple-skinned vegetables.

And don't forget the carrots!  If you read my blog last year, you should know by now how excited I get about growing purple vegetables.

I turned most of our spinach into this spinach pie.  And it was delicious.

 This is my other garden in the spring.  We had lots and lots of lettuce and BROCCOLI!  (Before the worms got to it, that is.)  You see those little marigold plants?

This is a picture of those marigold plants a few months later.  Notice how they are larger than my (rather large) one-year-old.

And remember the sweet potatoes?

Tonight we dug them up.  All 45 pounds of them!!!  It was like a treasure hunt.  There was lots of, "Wow, look at this one, Mom!" 

Proud mother of two children and 40+ lbs. of sweet potatoes.

It has been such a satisfying, bountifully blessed year for our garden.

Homeschool Preschool

I have been teaching Coen little preschool lessons three mornings a week while Silas naps.  He loves it.  On Monday he was very upset that we weren't having it, so he volunteered to be the teacher and make a lesson.  After I put Silas to sleep I showed up in Coen's room to be the student.  He declared, "We're learning about robots today!"  Sure enough, he had cut out square paper robot heads and little paper robot bodies.  My job was to glue them together.

Silas is still crawling, no walking yet.  His favorite game lately is to take off crawling after a ball, yelling, "BAW, BAW, BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"  He also likes to pull things off the kitchen table, now that he can reach the top.  It's really bad when he's in his high chair.  Whenever I leave the room for a minute I return to find that he is holding my glass of water and is very pleased with himself.  This kid has some long arms.

I'll try to put up pictures soon!