Is that lotion??

Yesterday morning, this is what I came back to, when I went to find clothes for Z to put on…..

Craziness!! And he did not lotion his legs at all!

Our garden

This year, we are growing a garden in our backyard. I did not take pictures of what the ground looked like before we started versus after. I wish that I had, but there is no sense in worrying about it now. What I do have, are pictures of what the plants looked like when I first put them in, and what they look like today.

Let’s start with the tomato plants. I got some from my wonderful neighbor, Amy, who started her tomatoes from seeds. I was a little late in the game, so she gave me some of the seedlings that she had left over.
Well, the first thing that you have got to learn in gardening, is that plants need water! She probably gave me at least 15 plants, and I skillfully (not really) whittled down to 4.

Here is what they looked like when they were first planted.

Below is the Beef Steak plant that I purchased from Lowes.

Below is the basil plant that I purchased at the Durham Farmer’s Market.

I also purchased cantelope and watermelon plants from Lowes as well. Here are pictures of them one day after planting. It is kind of hard to read, but the ones in the green lines are cantelopes and the ones in the red are watermelon. Please excuse my shadow

Here are the zucchini and cucumber plants. Also purchased at the Durham Farmer’s Market. You can see there is something strange going on with the Zucchini plants. Pretty much, it looks like a critter came and sat on them, right after I planted them!

I will attempt to do my best and chronical my experience with this garden. Yesterday, James and I put the dirt in the last bed, that is going to be used for the pole bean seeds that I have to plant. I am hoping to get that task completed by the end of the week.

In my next post, I will show you pictures of what the plants above, look like today.

Z’s strawberries

Zayveon is such a strawberry eater, that I decided he could plant his own strawberry seeds this year. We used a strawberry kit. I will have to post the details about the name of the kit later, when I can remember the name of the it! We put the seeds in the planter, inside the house, but we had soil everywhere, that I had to clean up very carefully…. Zayveon was impatient as always, but we managed to get throught it, with only losing, I think, about 2 seeds. Anywhoo–here a picture of Zayveon holding his planter.

In a few weeks, we will have to see if we see any seedlings. Here is hoping for the best!

ETA: The company that makes the Strawberry Grow Kit is Buzzy®.

Race For The Cure

Hi all!

I am posting quickly to let you all know that I am going to enter the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. Here is my link if you would like to donate to help me raise money. Technically, Zayveon and I will be walking and Thulani will be riding. I made the decision to actually walk because a dear friend of mine recently learned of breast cancer diagnosis in her immediate family and a member of my TriangleMommies group died last year from breast cancer.
Here is the link if you would like to give me monetary support http://race.komennctriangle.org/site/TR/Race/General?px=1500106&pg=personal&fr_id=1070

I was not talking to you momma…

Well, excuuuuuse me! This morning, Thulani and I were minding our business (He was getting his morning moisturization session ) and Zayveon decided that he wanted to take pictures with his camera of Thulani and I. He told me to say “cheese” and so I did. I gave a big old purty smile for the camera. Next up was Thulani. Thulani was not really interested in smiling for the camera, so I thought that I would help. I was trying to get Thulani to smile for Zayveon, apparently, I was in the way, and Zayveon told me, “I was not talking to you momma, I was talking to Tuwani”, and he shooed me off with his index finger.
I didn’t know what to say, other than hold in my laughter. James also heard this exchange and walked away to look out of the window (and also silently snicker at the situation). What are you going to do??

My son is such a character.

Daily Antics

Hello all.

It has been quite a while since I have written anything down. Lots of things have been going on though!

Zayveon has started playing soccer, Thulani has made a few attempts at rolling over and I am once again, trying to lose weight.

I have quite a few pictures of Zayveon playing soccer, I will have to put them up, so that his “skills” can be seen .

Just about everyday, I have a “Zavyeon” story for my co-worker. I think that most of you that read my blog, would love to hear these stories too, and get a chuckle or an ewww (because we are potty training) out of them.

Last night, after dinner, Z goes running into the bathroom, with his exclamation of, “I have to pee!”. He finishes using the bathroom and commences to washing the sink and countertop his hands. I hear some unusual thumping sounds coming from the bathroom, so I ask James to check it out. I hear, “ZAYVEON!” and the sound of the toilet seat hitting the tank. There are some words being exchanged in the bathroom about poop and the potty. James comes out of the bathroom and let’s me know that while Z was washing his hands, there was a “turd coming out of his butt.” (Insert the ewww sound here…) The toilet seat hitting against the tank, was James’s efforts to get Z on the toilet before the “piece” finished coming out. Luckily, he made it. I would have hated to see what this post would have turned into if I had to clean up poo off of the floor. Though I am sure that it will happen…..

Thank you GroceryGame.com

Thanks go to the grocerygame.com!!

With coupons and what was already on sale, I went to Harris Teeter last night and saved 72.5% off of my grocery bill! Wooo Hooo!!!

Thulani and Zayveon are doing great!
Zayveon is learning new words every day and Thulani is getting ready to sprout some teeth!

Have a wonderful Wednesday!!!!

Kanji in her new pink coat!

Nikki (my BFF) bought Kanji this pink coat for $1.00.

I thought that I would humor her and everyone else, by posting pictures of Kanji in this coat!

My new grocery bag!

I decided to go “green” for the holiday season, and I made grocery bags as gifts for my family. I decided to take a picture of my shopping trip to the store tonight and show how much I was able to get into this bag. I could have fit more things in it as well!

Here is what was in the bag!

I think that I am going to like this! I am going to have to make a few more!

Happy New Year!! 2009!!

James and I want to say Happy New Year to everyone that we know!! Here is a picture of us relaxing on the couch with our “drinks” to start off the new year!!