Showing posts with label strawberry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strawberry. Show all posts

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Gardener Conall


Conall has another garden this year. He got a gift of money from Aunt Jackie and Uncle Bill for Easter. He wanted to use the money to buy plants for this year's garden, and Caitlin decided to do the same with her gift. They bought Roma tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes (Caitlin picked out a "pink" tomato plant), grape tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, a bell pepper plant, a strawberry plant, a watermelon plant, two basil plants, some marigolds and a jalapeno plant (for Po Po and Pop Pop).
We also had some seeds for green beans, cucumbers, and flowers. We had already started the garden off with a rosemary plant. As always with Conall's plants, the plants are flourishing. They are healthy and he has at least 10 green tomatoes, if not more. The kids have already eaten about 6 strawberries and there are more growing. I am interested to see if we actually get a watermelon from our plant!

Conall showing his garden off to the neighbor boy

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Birthday Party for Aunt Amy

Earlier this week, Caitlin asked if we were invited to Aunt Amy's birthday party. I explained that she was coming over later this week to have a "birthday party".
Aunt Amy came by after work today and we had a "birthday party" for her. We had spaghetti, garlic bread, and a yummy Silvek's chocolate cake. Conall had to get his new guitar (from Santa) to sing her his version of the Happy Birthday song. I put the video of that up in another post.


Amy's "birthday party"



Covering a strawberry with chocolate cake and icing



Caitlin "We're cheesing mommy"

Monday, July 20, 2009

Our Berry/Watermelon Girl

If you get a chance to read it, there is a great kids' book called Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman. You can read some background on the book at Neil Gaiman's blog or check out the book here.

Anyway, with a nod to the book, here is a photo of our berry/watermelon girl!


Thursday, July 16, 2009

Strawberry Smoothie

Caitlin wanted a "moothie" yesterday morning after she saw me make up a batch to freeze for Conall. I made her a strawberry one and went to pour it into her sippy cup that has a straw. Caitlin let me know she didn't want that, she wanted it "in a moothie cup."

I have some plastic Disney character cups that we got at Burger King or somewhere when I was a kid and dad sent some of them home with me one of the times we visited. I tend to put Conall's smoothies in these cups since they are tall and hard to break. I guess Caitlin has decided that they are the smoothie cups!