Look, Mama!

"Wook, Mommy!! We are growin' a bean stalk!!

Are we farmers?!?

I vaguely remember planting a seed in a cup at school when i was Emma's age probably because it was THAT long ago that i really can't remember. I do remember always loving plants and being amazed when i learned just how a plant grew....add water and sunlight, and ta-da! Your plant would grow. And of course, i come from a long line of tree hugging/plant loving women--my grandmother and mother had amazing green thumbs; although i've always loved plants and trees, my thumb was more of a dark brown variety.

Emma came home one day before school let out with a little plastic cup with a tiny bean plant that she had planted at school. She was very excited....and told me all of the things we needed to do to keep our "bean tree" alive. So, she watered and made sure that her plant was in the sun and as this little plant grew, we transplanted it into a bigger pot. I was holding my breath, willing this little bean plant not to die as i know my reputation around growing things.

This little bean plant of hers is growing amazingly well. It first grew flowers, and then the bean thingys came from the flowers. I don't know who was more excited, me or Emma! It now needs to be transplanted into a much, much bigger pot and it needs bean poles to climb on.

I know, i know.....Emma and i are getting carried away with our one bean plant. We now have a small pot of strawberries that we managed to grow from Strawberry seeds!! I can hardly stand it!!

Perhaps my husband is right....we need a small farm.

Or maybe we can just grow some potatoes in old tires.....and get kicked out of our neighborhood for being so 'creative' in our desire to be "farmers". When i told my husband about seeing folks grow potatoes in tires, he stared at me like i was insane. He then told me, that under NO circumstances was i to go find a bunch of old tires and drag them to our house to plant potatoes in.

He's just not any fun some days...

Either way.....growing plants from seeds with Emma has been so much fun. I love when you are able to have fun but still manage to make it a learning thing. Seeing the amazement on Emma's face has been awesome.

Maybe next year we can plant corn....

Because rainy days.....

...can be fun, too!