The end of summer is near

The first day of kindergarten is only fourteen days away. We received our first school newsletter in today's mail, and a quick phone call to the school told us that Dominick will be in morning kindergarten. Now that we've gotten what we wanted, I hope we can really be ready and out the door by 8:20 every day. That will be a feat. The boys have recently started sleeping a little later, so that some days we don't actually get up until 7:45. (Don't tell Mike!) Dominick may be coming around to the idea of kindergarten. He was able to talk about school today without getting upset, so that's a good sign.

In other news, we harvested and ate the first yellow squash from our garden today. My blog entries have been rather few and far between this summer, so I don't think I've ever mentioned that we even had a garden. We started it in May after hearing Dominick talk constantly about vegetable gardens. Why not? I thought. So we found a suitable spot, prepared the ground, put up a little fence to keep the bunnies out, and planted peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, watermelon, peppers, carrots, parsnips, cauliflower and cabbages. The peas are dead, the tomatoes are dying, and the watermelon and cauliflower don't look too impressive. We've had three grape tomatoes over about as many weeks. Still, we should have a sweet crop of root veggies; the peppers have rebounded from a sorry state; the cabbages look like baby cabbages; one cucumber has been picked and two more are growing. It's really just a big experiment, considering we've never done this before. The boys love having a garden. Several times a day, they ask to check on it, and Noel loves to water.

The garden about ten days after planting

Our first cucumber

Noel watering the garden