Connor and Abby's Garden

We have had so much fun planting our garden this year. Connor was full of ideas on what we should plant. Basically, he believes we live on a farm and can plant a whole field of vegetables and fruit including corn, watermelon, peas, carrots, and pumpkins! Well, seeing as their garden is about 4 x 6, these grand plans were not going to come to fruition. However, we did plant baby carrots, strawberries, sunflowers, snapdragons, pansies, alyssum and geraniums. Connor and Abby were so excited about the whole project. They loved "preparing" the garden space which was very messy and mostly focused on digging and raking dirt and hunting for worms and rocks. They actually helped me plant most everything but I have to say their favorite part is watering the plants. Oh boy they would happily water the plants for hours! (So over watering is obviously a concern!) Abby also likes to water the bird bath but I'm not sure what she is expecting to grow. It was great because Grandma got to help us plant some of our flowers which was very special. Oh and big surprise here...she also got to help us water them! It was so funny because the day we planted everything Connor woke up from his nap and said, "What are we doing this afternoon? Is it time to pick vegetables?" Of course I had to explain it would take a while! We also went to the library and got some fiction and nonfiction books about plants and gardens and Connor is really enjoying reading them. He even insisted on taking a flower book to school to share with his class. He is very interested in the parts of the plant and how they grow. He loves to tell people about plants and recently had a very serious conversation with his friend Christopher over whether a pinto bean they found outside was a bean or (as Connor insisted) a seed. Abby is pointing out flowers all over the place now as well. Every time we go to Connor's preschool, she points to their snapdragons and pansies and "tells" me about them because we have some at home to. It's been a great project and of course they are both very proud of their garden!

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