Enjoying fresh cut flowers

In my mind, there is nothing more uplifting than having fresh cut flowers around the house. At the end of summer there is such an amazing variety from the farmers markets.

Here is a fall inspired bouquet I bought at the St. Paul farmers market.

Here is a simple arrangement of zinnias and cosmos from the garden on my nightstand. It makes me so happy to wake up to this.

Paging Dr. Sula

Ever since Sula's short stay in the hospital in July, she is fascinated with doctors. We got her a little doctor kit and some play scrubs and she just loves to play "Dr. Sula" with her baby dolls. Like any medical professional these days she is also really distracted with her "iPhone" [any phone to Sula is an iPhone.]

Skateboard lesson

Papa really wants to help Sula learn how to skateboard.

Sula got a quick lesson on our way home from the wading pool.

One last dip in the pool

Keewaydin Park is just one block north of our house, there you will find an elementary school, community center, and a park with a wading pool. The park’s name was taken from Longfellow’s poem, Song of Hiawatha. Keewaydin is a Native American word that means ''northwest wind'' or ''‘home wind.'' We like to come up to this park as often as we can because it has some awesome playground equipment for toddlers. This was the first time we checked out the wading pool. We will for sure be back next year!

Fun harvesting chard

Sula loves to help harvest vegetables from the garden. On this day it was chard. Lots and lots and lots of swiss chard. According to Sula, the stalks make really fun toys.

What am I going to do with all this chard?

Yes, she is wearing just a diaper. The clothes had to go after she got them soaking wet playing with the hose.

Carrot harvest

Sula helped harvest all the carrots from the garden today. She really enjoyed her role washing them with the garden hose.

Backyard pool fun

Today I got out the kiddie pool for Sula so that I could get some work done in the garden. I am not sure if Sula thinks she is a monkey in this video or what. What I know for sure is that she was having some major fun.

Looks like she gave a similar reaction to her pool last year: check this link out!



This is an HD video taken with my new iPhone. I am not sure why the quality is so bad when I uploaded this video from my computer. I will have to investigate this further....