Holiday weekend:)

What I regularly hear from Eila these days...
"Mommy, I need a worm NOW please!"

Eila and her worm

Hugs in the park

Exploration!

Introducing Winnie

Winnie and Eila

Kushang, Eila, Ben, Winnie, and Denise (left to right)

Eila and Winnie strolling with the geese

Sweet goslings

Eila's usual state of motion- running!

Planting with mommy

Eila flying her kite from school in the front yard

Eila showing her kitty the otters at the National Zoo

We have had a good long weekend so far...lots of gardening and a great discovery in the digging process for Eila....WORMS! She is somewhat obsessed- she coddles them until they go limp and then finally will return them to the earth and dig for another. Its kind of sweet and really great because it entertains her for long periods while I get things planted. We now have 10 kinds of heirloom tomatoes planted, arugula from Italy, cilantro seeds, zucchini from Italy, and basil. We will get the rainbow chard, carrots, and chiogga beets in tomorrow. We are a bit late in the season to just be puting seeds in the ground, but we can hope.

We got together with Ben and Denise and their daughter Winnie at the Brookside gardens for an evening stroll on Saturday. It was great to see them and catch up a bit. The girls seemed to like each other a lot and we even got some hugs and smiles from the two.