Planting Seeds

Just like last year, Isaac and I started seeds together for our garden. We've learned a few things about transplanting vegetable seedlings over the last couple of years, and chose just a few types of fruits and vegetables to start from seed this time around. The rest will be planted directly into our garden beds, either by seed or plants we'll purchase from the greenhouse. I'm hoping this will be our best harvest year yet!

Ben and Isaac finally got around to building Isaac's own garden bed this spring. A year later, but better late than never! Isaac is looking forward to growing tomatoes, peas, carrots and onions. Good choices in my opinion, as these are staples in our house. Now that Isaac is a little older (and looking holy-cow-so-much more grown up), I think this is the perfect time to let him tend to his own garden bed. By the end of the summer last year, Isaac could identify most of the ripe fruits and pick them himself. Since we have soaker hoses, that just leaves learning to weed his garden bed, which I can help him with. Well, hopefully--the first year I planted a garden, I pulled all of the beet seedlings out because I thought they were weeds. I think I've come pretty far since then, though, so we should be alright. Ha!

Mama + Baby

She's our little missy, and we love her so.

Playtime

Emma, Ten Weeks Old

Sweet baby girl, my heart could burst wide open with all the love it holds for you.

The Children's Museum

Last week we spent a lot of time in the house because of the cold, and Isaac and I were both ready to get out and about. We decided to check out the Children's Museum in Denver, along with every other family with toddlers, apparently. It was so busy.

The Kinetics! exhibit was Isaac's favorite place, with its tracks and cranks, tunnels and big ball drop. 

This is both Emma's and my reaction to all the noise and people. We are not fans.

Bubbles!

And the ever-popular Fire Station #1. I had to peel Isaac away from this room, with promises that we'd return again with Daddy. 

We had a good time, in spite of the crowd, and if we do bring Daddy with us next time, there's even more fun to be had in some of the other exhibits, like the Assembly Plant. Isaac and Daddy will both enjoy that one!

Dr. Isaac

When Isaac accompanied me at my prenatal visits with Janelle, he always enjoyed helping her measure my belly and listening for baby's heartbeat. Janelle also had a great medical kit made of old equipment that kids could play with, and Isaac loved to pretend with it--especially the "shotter." For Isaac's birthday, Grandma Cheri and Grandpa Todd gave Isaac a toy medical kit, and it has been a bit hit around here.

Here is Dr. Isaac taking care of one of his favorite patients:

A very tolerant patient and little sister.

Isaac's Snowshoes

Isaac got a new pair of snowshoes for Christmas. This morning I took Isaac out in the backyard to practice using the them before we planned to head to the park to snowshoe together. He figured out the concept quickly, but he was more interested in knocking down icicles and using them as weapons and tools than anything else. I decided snowshoeing probably wasn't in the cards today, but piled Isaac and our snowshoes (and his icicle!) in the sled and pulled it to the park anyway. We didn't snowshoe, but we did find a sledding hill. We had so much fun, and I got a very good workout pulling that boy all over creation!