On Thursday, one of Mom's coworkers mentioned that his zucchinis would be ready in 7-9 days.  "Lucky!" Mom said, "My garden is doing great, but I won't have zucchinis that soon."  Look at what she found that night as she was picking lettuce and kale.  A zucchini almost as long as her arm!

 

The rest of the garden is doing well, too.  These are three 12'x6' raised beds.  We have two more garden beds the same size, plus some leeks, herbs, blueberries, and rhubarb scattered throughout our flower beds.

What goes around, comes around

Dad has spent a lot reading to me from a distance.  Via CD when he was in Georgia and I was in Mom's belly; via CD when he was in Korea; via DVD and Skype when he was in Iraq, and via Skype when he was in multiple states.  Now, I can read to him while he is away--via phone!

We were so excited to see our former nanny, Miss Leila, and her newborn son, Romeo, today!  We had a great visit.  Romeo is precious.  We can't wait to see them both when they're back in town again!

 

 

Cuties!

Releasing our Butterflies

We raised butterflies from larvae, and today we released them in our backyard.  We eagerly await their return to our garden and flowers!

I'm pretty sure not everyone has this much fun in the backseat of this police car.

Happy birthday and happy summer start!

We had beautiful weather to start our summer and celebrate Dad's birthday.  Evan, Nathan, and Elsa organized a surprise party, which included obstacle decorations.  Good thing Mom and Dad have good military training to be able to low-crawl down the hall!

 

 

We had exceptionally low tides, and were able to collect (and release) unusual sea creatures.  It isn't often that you can pick a Dungeness crab up off the beach!  We set up a museum with Elsa to show off our sea stars, crabs, limpets, sea urchins and other treasures.  We even had a huge oyster, but it was easy to collect off Grandpa's oyster beds.