Monday, May 4, 2015

Presenting, the Vegetables. Finally.

It's official we have a vegetable garden! Mitch built me a pretty garden box. I filled it up with a ton of dirt and Nate dug the holes for the plants. Nate's friend came over and all the kids played in the sprinkler while I worked. We stopped for some snacks at our new picnic table Nana found us. We even ate our dinner al fresco. It was a beautiful day. We had a wonderful time. 
We planted cucumbers, bell peppers, roma, cherry, and better boy tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, basil, garden beans, kale, broccoli and lettuce. 
I think I will convince Mitch to build me another one tomorrow because I ran out of room. We still have pumpkin (fingers crossed), cantelope, jalapeño, spinach, and probably some more tomatoes. Nate and I are super excited. I hope they survive. The plants were beautiful two weeks ago, but we weren't able to plant them when should have. The night frost lasted three weeks later than usual. So hopefully out pitiful plants will come back and be very bountiful! 




Saturday, May 2, 2015

Nate Day.

Mitch and I took Nate to his first movie in the theater today! We dropped of Liam and had a Nate Day. He was super excited. We took him to see The Avengers movie. Yes, he's a little young, we failed at proper parenting today. He loved it. He had to sit in a booster because he's short and he couldn't keep the seat from closing up on him. But as soon as the opening credits came on, Nate leaned over and gave Mitch the biggest hug. He thought it was awesome. He dazed out a bit when the conversation parts got lengthy but sat straight up and cheered on Ironman during all the fighting. He even pounded his hand in his fist when the bad guy came on screen. He told me he loved me at least twice during the movie. Nate stayed still and watched the entire movie, it was over two hours long. He seriously loves superheros. He doesn't know how to talk discreetly at all, but it was too cute when he made his rather loud comments. 
"Whoa, that's Ironman!"
"Oh, that's not good."
"He's mean and green."
"Hawkeye has a bow and arrow!"
"Ultron is the bad guy, he's bad."
We got him some popcorn and a drink and he was in heaven. We cannot wait to take him to another movie. It was nice to have a Nate Day.