After everyone left on Sunday (see Betsy's and Bill's blogs for some pictures from the weekend) we did some yard work. Anders helped with the new Honeycrisp Apple tree we bought to replace our second Redbud in 2 years. For some reason, even though they are bred for Minnesota winters, we cannot get Redbuds to survive in our yard. Since Anders loves applesauce and Honeycrisp apples are so good, and a Minnesota apple (developed at the U of M) we went for it. We also expanded our garden - this is part of my evil plan to have a garden take over our entire yard!
Anders loves to stand. In fact, he crawls over to things specifically to stand up. Yep, he is crawling. It really has developed in the last few days - hopefully Will can put some videos on the blog in the next week. Anyway, standing is his favorite thing these days. This same afternoon when I went to get him from his nap, he was standing up in his crib chatting with the fish.
He is also very curious. On Tuesday Will told me that he had a disconcerting moment - he put Anders down in the living room and went to the kitchen, when he looked out of the kitchen a minute or two later, Anders was nowhere in sight. It turned out that he had crawled about 5 feet to a bag of stuff and was checking out the cool running shoes I had recently bought at the Title 9 Blow Out Sale in St. Paul a few days earlier.
That is the end result of all of Will's hard work. We expanded the garden - making it twice the size, added some more hostas and moved a day lily which was large enough to be split. We might also need another boulder, but I'm not sure we want to put it in Will's car while we are up at the lake.
The parting shot: Anders LOVES Steven Colbert. I should send this to the Colbert Report maybe...
4 comments:
Your yard is really looking nice. Did Anders give his dad some gardening tips? Watch that tree grow along with Anders and look back at these pictures sometime.
Can't believe how big he looks! Ah, the crawling adds a whole new dimension to your lives. Happy babyproofing!
The new tree looks nice in the front yard. And....I see the lilacs! I remember John planted a tree either the day Kate was born or within a few days. A red maple in front of the Sunnyside house. Almost every time I drive by I love to look at it....it (and Kate) have grown so much in the intervening years. Anders is growing too. I hope he isn't a climber like his Dad.....I worry sometimes about him climbing on top of that fish tank!
I agree that Anders looks so big and so cute! It's exciting that he's crawling and standing. Before you know it, he'll be walking!! The yard looks very nice, too.
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