We got our garden plot today!  We had completely give up hope and bought a bunch of pots and stuff to garden on our back porch, and now it looks like we won’t need to after all.  Sara got an email this morning that said, “Be at the garden at 3” so it is a good thing she checked her work email!  And now we have a patch of land to call our own.  We are mostly planning on growing tomatoes, green peppers, green onions and beans, but we are also considering corn, cucumbers and carrots.  Any other ideas?  We already planted some herbs on our porch such as parsley, basil and cilantro.  I think it will be more convenient to have them close.  This is assuming of course that we can get anything to grow!  I am also excited to meet our “gardening neighbors” on each side who both have really nice and obviously well kept plots.

And the best part about it was that I found a $20 bill in an abandoned lot on the way back!  It was super dirty (obviously had been there for a long time) but this was a $20!  I’m lucky to find a nickle normally!  So, if you add that $20 to growing our own food, this garden is really making us self sufficient!

As far as Evie goes, she seems to be picking up new skills every day.  I mentioned her crawling and pulling up to stand already.  She figured out how to go up stairs, so we had to install a gate at the bottom of the stairs in addition to the one at the top.  When we are reading books she likes to turn the pages.  Also sometimes she randomly has to flip back and look at the cover as if to say, “What was this book again?  This is a good one, I’m going to remember it!”  For some reason she randomly started shaking her head no, but I don’t think she knows what that means.  I don’t know where she picked that one up, probably at day care.  I bet they are saying “no” a lot.  I’d say the most amazing thing is that she has learned to raise her arms up in the air when we say, “How big is Evie?  Soooo big!”  She really gets a kick out of that.  Oh yeah, also, just today, she learned to feed herself a puff.  For some reason she previously knew that if you held out a puff she should eat it, but when she had it she just played with it.  Then today she just sort of made the connection.

Now if only she would start eating and / or sleeping…