My grandpa is up visiting for a couple of weeks and was staying at my parents’ house for the first part of last week. The boys had been begging to go out to Papa & Grandma’s to check on the garden and pick some peas so we waited until Wednesday when Great Papa would be there too (as he lives down in Arkansas & we don’t get to see him much).
We hadn’t seen him since May, so I thought the boys did fairly well…warming up to him pretty quickly. We had dinner together and then headed down to check out the garden. The boys were totally prepared with their garden gloves, rake, shovel and wagon.
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| To the garden! |
Picking peas was fun. They did very well asking me or Papa if a pea pod was ready to pick or having our help holding base so they didn’t pull off the entire vine branch. They also checked on the carrots, potatoes, lettuce, green beans, onions, peppers & squash. A small bunny kept hopping in & out of the corn field next to the garden, so that captured their interest & got us into a Peter Rabbit/Mr. McGreggor’s garden discussion (they love that book from daycare) which also lead them to scolding the little bunny not to come into Papa & Grandma’s garden.
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| Colton checking. |
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| Helping Papa look for the "big" ones. |
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| Wyatt putting his pea pods in the bowl. |
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| Colton too! |
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Watching the little bunny.
(He's the tiny dark spot in the dirt between
the grass & the field.) |
We took our big bowl of harvested pea pods up to my parents’ deck to enjoy. The boys got the hang of breaking open the pea pods “mostly” on their own with the help of Great Papa’s instructions. Bonus: it is the only vegetable they both ate…sure, we probably only got a small serving each but I’ll take any amount of veggies in their bodies these days.
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| Enjoying the harvest! |
I’m so glad we had the night free to spend that time with my parents & grandpa.
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