Mommy's little helper

Emma is learning all kinds of new skills now that it is warm. Yesterday we tackled watering the flowers. I held her hands the first time and we watered together. But when that (little) watering can was empty, she started signing more right away! So I let her do one watering can full on her own...

It was a little heavy at this point.


But she was able to lift it...just ended up watering the grass instead of the flowers.

But, hey, watering the grass can be fun, right?

Ooop...aiming for flowers but burying the nozzle in the mulch.

Whew....I can do it Mommy!

And there, perfect technique only one watering can later...

Tomato harvest!

When we got back from vacation, our tomatoes looked like this:

Success!

They are so yummy, right off the vine!

The tomato plants

From the ashes of disaster grow the roses (tomatoes) of success!



Remember how my tomato plants were ravaged during our crazy hail storm? Well I am pleased to say that they have really come back to life! I had four plants, all with blooms on them when the hail hit, and only one retained any blooms after the storm.

A few weeks ago they looked like this:
(three plants in the long planter and one in the large one)


All the plants had flowers, only one showing tomatoes so far though

NOW:

I can't believe how much they've grown! I'm really glad I took that picture a few weeks ago to compare.

I don't think that I've ever really seen a plant grow the way it looks on the package, except for these tomatoes. They look really close to the picture:

Now we're just waiting for them to ripen!

ps...bonus points if you know the movie referenced in the first line of this post!