Thursday, August 16, 2012

The sunflower

When Josh was in pre-school his teacher had them plant a sunflower seed.  He brought it home, we planted it in the garden and waited to see if it would grow.  After Josh dug it up once and it nearly died we took care of that little seed and watched it grow.  I tried to take a picture of it with Josh every once in a while. Here is the transformation of the sunflower seed....
 Oh, and just F.Y.I. I took these pictures over a couple weeks, some of them only days apart.  Crazy huh?

 



 Once it finally did get the flower on top the poor thing couldn't take it anymore.  Now it's trying to jump the fence to the neighbors yard.  Not to mention our zucchini was pushing it out of the way.  Zucchini are always bossy.  Maybe that should be Kate's new nickname....Zucchini.  Okay, this is getting kind of random.
 And look at this!  Done and done!  The playhouse is finally finished.  Trav named it "Maughan's fort."  That's what Wellsville used to be called.  Bet you didn't know that!  See you are getting smarter by reading this blog.

 The only problem is, the kids are terrified of the slide.  Okay, this is a really big slide.  And you go really fast on it.  We thought the kids would love it and be out there every day.  Oh no, we have to beg them to go on it and we have to be at the bottom to catch them.  If I blink I'm afraid Kate will shoot off the end like a rocket.  Lots of time and money well spent, on something the kids are afraid of.  The good news is, we've had older neices and nephews come over and they love it.  So maybe they need to just get a little bigger.  Trav's working on a landing pad right now.  Yes, it needs a landing pad.
 And here's one last one to gross you out.  Josh loves pickle juice.  We dared him to drink some and he liked it so much he went and got a straw.  I like the look on my face in the background.  Yum!

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