buggers

Our car conversation from yesterday:

Jonathan: "What is that on my finger?"

Me: "I can't see it right now. Where did you find it?"

Jonathan: "In my nose"

Me: "Then it is probably a bugger"

Jonathan: "A bugger!! Buggers in my nose"

a few minutes later...

Jonathan: "I have buggers in my nose. We have buggers for dinner sometimes"

Me: "Do you mean hamburgers like we had last night?"

Jonathan: "Yes! I have hamburgers in my nose!"

elbows

Since Jonathan's throwing arm has been improving, we've been working on some common sense rules about what can be thrown indoors and what cannot. The rule is basically that squishy things can be thrown; hard things cannot.

One of the other things, apparently, that has been capturing Jonathan's interest is the idea that we have bones. In our Richard Scary book Lowly worm breaks a bone in his foot (OK, so there are some biological/anatomical problems with that, but whatever). So we've told him that we all have bones inside of us to help us stand up, etc. The bones are underneath the hard parts of us- elbows, knees, legs, etc. And the squishy parts of us- tummies, noses, ears, cheeks- don't have bones right underneath.

So this morning I woke up to the sound of Jonathan chatting to his stuffed animals in the crib. His discussion with bear went something like this "Don't throw your elbow. No. Elbows are not squishy. They might hurt somebody. Elbows have bones. Teeth are bones. Don't throw your teeth".

Hot Summer Days

It has been HOT here for the past few days. The kind of hot and humid that makes me sweat just thinking about opening the door. But with a kiddo who cannot get enough of playing outside- I choose outside over tantrums and never ending whining even on horrid days. So on days when the pool is closed, we bring the water fun to our own backyard!

Onions!!

We got back from vacation last night, and by 10:30 am I am already overwhelmed with produce.

Before we left, our garden was limping along at its typical pace:

beans struggling up a trellis and cucumbers refusing to grow

tomatoes, basil, and okra

onions that for some reason chose to lay down instead of growing upright

Jonathan helped me survey and do some harvesting in our own garden this morning. Before we left, the onions were close to being done, and when we got back all of their little tops had completely fallen over and turned brown. So we dug them up and set them out to cure.

Many of them remained quite small, but we got a few decent sized ones. Enough to justify $3.99 in sets. We also got a few handfuls of Roma tomatoes (these are the ones that made it out of the garden before being eaten). The beans and okra are shaping up to be failures this year, but the cucumber plants have a few baby cukes.

We then picked up our CSA for the week, and HOLY COW!

I had forgotten what summer bounty they sometimes give us! 4 cucumbers, 4 ears of corn, 1 cantelope, 2 patty-pan squash, an eggplant, an onion, 1 green pepper, and 4 huge tomatoes. The watermelon was our own seperate purchase, but Jonathan and I can probably polish most of it off before the weekend is over! Any ideas for what to do with patty-pans?