Toes and TO-MA-TOES

The boys had a day off of school Friday, so we tried to enjoy it with lots of fun activities.  Because I am THAT mom, we started out by going to the library and catching up on school work.  I know....What mom makes their kids do school work on a day off?  ME!  I am a mom in graduate school, so it was a good time for me to get some much needed stuff done and for them to do some review.  It only lasted about an hour, so it wasn't too bad....right?

Because we got the serious stuff done early, we now had time to get outside and enjoy the great weather!  Every year we plant a small garden behind our house.  I say small, but last year we planted.......  tomatoes, green peppers, jalapenos, onions, green beans, cucumbers, squash, okra, pumpkins, and watermelons.  Oh, we also have a fig and apple tree.  This year we will not plant as much.... for now!

The boys and I headed to Lowe's to pick out seeds.  Each of them were told to pick three seed packets each.  While I was busy looking for special varieties of tomatoes, the boys managed to pick out about 1063 varieties of flowers, cacti, green beans, and any other vegetable available.  Needless to say, we spent several minutes weeding out the packets to a manageable number.  We ended up getting cactus seeds, tomatoes, green peppers, jalapenos, green beans, watermelon, lettuce, cucumber, green onion, and several flower packets.  They seemed to be most proud of the cactus seeds.

Gabe and Cole's cactus seeds

When we got home, it was officially nap time for the girls and seed starting time for the boys and I.  While the boys and I began the process of getting the seeds started in peat pots, Nora found it fun to pull back her blinds and make us laugh.  She spent about an hour peeking from behind the blinds while the boys jumped around and made faces at her from the outside.  After a while, the boys and I moved to the other side of the yard to finish our project.  This allowed her to finally go to sleep.  A few minutes later, Lucy, who had slept through the entire thing, woke up.  She was able to join us in the last few minutes of our cleaning up process.  Meanwhile, Nora continued to sleep the afternoon away.

While the boys were running wild in the back, Lucy and I painted our toenails.  I SO love getting to do girly things with them!  Both of the girls love having their nails painted and will stare at them and show us their toes for days afterward.

We had a great day at home!  I love days like this and can't wait until Summer arrives.  Not long now.....