What's new?

Pink eye, that's what's going around our house now.  Andrew got it first and tonight Alex is showing signs.  I am not sure how that will be working for church tomorrow, but I guess we will figure it out.  Thankfully my very sweet pediatrician gave me 3 refills on the antibiotics so that when it did get passed around I could get the meds without another Dr. visit. 

We finally got our garden started today.  I bought plants 2 weeks ago because they were buy one get one free at Home Depot.  I couldn't pass them up so I bought about 10 plants.  Their seed packets were also buy one get one free, so I bought about 10 different kinds of seeds and the little cups to start them in. 

It's a good thing we weren't ready to plan a garden as 2 days later it snowed.   Then it snowed again the next week.  I just hope we are past the freezes.  The lows are in the 30's but they aren't below freezing so hopefully we can save the plants we have. 

My husband and older boys built me a 4x4 planter today and we got soil to fill it.   We have enough soil left over to fill another 4x4 box so I think we will get the wood and make another one tomorrow.  Then get some more plants.  The plants I had barely filled the box we have, but I am hopeful that we can produce some veggies this summer.  I have a very black thumb so it is going to require some hard work, but we are going to work it into homeschool so that should give us a daily reason to all go out there to water, weed and check our progress.

If I can just keeps Tyler from digging in the big box of dirt we should be okay.  Hopefully the local stores will get something besides tomato plants in soon.  That seems to be all they have and I really and not keen on tomatoes.  

Other than that life keeps moving on.  Ryan is trying very hard to walk.  He stands up and walks along things.  Sometimes he feels brave enough to let go for a few seconds and try to balance, but that is as far as he has gotten.  I know it will come soon and I am not sure I am ready.  He loves the stairs and would spend all day climbing them if I had time to just follow him up and down.  I don't so he usually only gets a few runs a day, then the gate goes up and he has to find something else to do. 

He is starting to get some strong opinions, he knows what he doesn't want and say "No No No".  Usually this is in response to some food we are trying to feed him.  I guess if he can survive on graham crackers and yogurt he will be okay.  That seems to be all he eats.  I have been making muffins lately and he loves those.  The other morning he had 3 blueberry muffins and a cup of yogurt.  Too bad he doesn't usually eat what we have for dinner.  He doesn't like veggies or meat.  Breads and dairy are what most of his meals consist of.  You would think he would be gaining weight on that diet (I would be), but he doesn't seem to gain weight very fast.  I am not worried though, he can stay little as long as he like.  I am not ready to give up my baby yet.