Farmer Belly

Spending all that time with Nana Toni and Papa Gary is making our little Belly quite the farmer. She has her own special garden growing at their house with flowers and so many different vegetables that I can't even remember what they are growing. While I definitely don't have much (or any) of a green thumb and Greg is moderately good (but getting better) Belly is using her rubbed off knowledge from Nana and Papa and has convinced us to grow a garden. A month or so ago we took a trip to a local store and bought a few starter plants. We decided on beefsteak tomato, corn, peas, and zucchini since they seemed easy to grow and were veggies we could all enjoy. We tilled the area, planted our plants, and thanks to the sunshine and Belly's watering can-- tada! A garden is growing! Today we planted a packet of beans so hopefully they will start sprouting soon and later in the month we and our neighbor are going to plant a few pumpkins for the fall.

Thanks to our neighbor Lani, we are learning all about growing vegetables and making our 1st successful garden. Belly couldn't be happier, she loves to be outside, digging around the plants, watering, and seeing how much growth there is. As she told us today, "our tomatoes are really taking off". Scroll down for a few pictures of our prize winning delights.

Zucchini in front, corn in the back

So proud of the 1st tomatoes to grow in our garden!

Showing off the (her) tomato plant

Peas. They are just now starting to grow pods.

The corn (on its way catching up to Belly's size)

Farmer Belly in our backyard