My Garden today

Tadaaa!

It's kinda hard to see the lettuce because the leaves are red and they blend in with the background dirt.

And next are featured too foreign plants (by foreign I simply mean that I did not plant them).

If anyone has any idea what these are, please tell me. Thanks!

And now, (drum roll) a lot of pictures of my sweet son Levi:

These first ones are chosen from the 40 or so pictures that he took last time he got a hold of the camera. I think that's peanut butter on his face.

Levi does Darth Vader:

Mom bought this mask at a garage sale last Saturday, and it is a hit-and-a-half with the men of this household.

Levi checks the mail:

Levi loves using keys and really enjoys checking the mail. Isn't his outfit cute? The t-shirt has DIGGERs on it and Levi really has a thing for plaid shorts lately.

Levi at play in his PJs:

This slide and table are inherited from the Kaysville Hogan family and are a very popular item among the small people in our neighborhood. Levi often chooses PJs as an outfit for the day.

Garden Update and Levi's new scooter

This is how my garden looks today!!

And this is the scooter, featuring Woody and Buzz from Toy Story, that Mom and I bought for Levi so that he can learn how to use a scooter and so he can "scoot" with Sarah and Abby (2 girls who are the children of  a family living with Mom until they move to Montana next month).

He wanted to put on the fabulous garage sale purchase of a helmet and knee and elbow pads which feature Elmo and friends (note: Levi's favorite movie is "Elmo's Potty Time"), but wouldn't stand still once they were on. Oh, well...

Then he wanted to take them all off...

Then he got the camera and took a picture of Grandma:

Then he set to inspecting his scooter:

My Garden

While Dad was here visiting, he helped me plant my square-foot garden and this is what it looks like after 11 days! WAHOO!!

The following is the view from the north end of the 3' x 6' garden:

The next one is the view from the west.
 

Front and center are 9 Red Leaf Lettuce plant. South (right) of them is a tomato that I started from seed and I'm tickled pink that it is still alive and well. At the back on the right are two tomato plants that I bought at Lowe's. On the left in the back is a Zucchini plant also acquired at Lowe's. In front of the Zucchini are potatoes, planted in 5 square feet (one potato in each, except for the front left corner which contains two potatoes) that makes sort of a Utah shape. Dad prophesied failure for my poor little potato plant because the box is nowhere near deep enough. HOWEVER, my friend Sarah was over and told me that I could just make a box to set over teh top of my little "Utah" potato field and fill it with dirt. They're growing quickly, so I will cover them with dirt this week and hope that it works. tee-hee!!!

Levi likes to help me water the garden and likes to look at and carefully touch the plants. He followed my example of pushing dirt around today, which was kind of scary, but I think he figured out what I was doing, i.e. filling in holes where we'd dumped water too quickly into the dirt.