Busy Memorial Day Weekend!

Boy am I tired. It was a Memorial Day weekend full of yard work and visits. On Saturday we planted the pots and weeded and replanted some of the flowers in all the beds. Emma 'helped' take the dirt out and spread it all over the sidewalk and managed to put at least some in the pot. She did the same with the cocoa mulch but she sure had fun doing it. After Emma woke up from her nap we went to Agnes' house for a barbecue. It was a nice to see everyone, chat, have a couple of drinks, eat some barbecue food, and chill. Emma kept us busy playing badminton or at least she tried and we ran around with balls. She saw the opened pool and wanted desperately to get in and was not happy we told her it was too cold. She also tried her first cupcake with all the sugary frosting which she liked...gee maybe it is true what they say that the kids will be like their godparent of the same sex. At least Polish people say that. I don't have a sweet tooth but Agnes and apparently Emma sure does...

On Sunday we cleaned the house a bit or at least got to the floors because we were tired and it rained a bit we didn't get much accomplished. I played with Emma and read her a lot of Polish books. After her nap we went to see her other Godparent, Rysiek, Adam's brother. It was Alina's birthday a couple days before so we celebrated that. Emma had fun watching TV and playing in the basement with her godfather. She didn't eat much...

On Monday we planted the rest of the vegetable garden and managed to plant some flowers up on the hill. We will see if any of them come up. We even tried some pumpkin but it's really dry up there so who know if anything will come of it. Emma of course 'helped' out a lot mainly to stomp on the dill and tomato plants which managed to wildly spread across my entire garden like weeds. We dug some out and gave some to my neighbor and Adam took some to work for people who garden. We planted cucumbers. Emma put the cucumber seeds in the holes and helped me cover the holes. She also enjoyed walking over the just planted areas....We also planted zucchini, tomatoes, eggplant, cilantro, mint, and some parsley because the plant died over the winter and did not come back this year. I put it near the other herbs such as the lemon thyme and rosemary and dill that come back year after year. The lettuce, spinach, salad mix, and radish are all coming in nicely. Some of the radish is big enough to eat already and so is the spinach. The salad and lettuce need more time and the snap peas got a ways to go. I also sprayed the roses, peonies and flowers for mold and spot conditions since one of my roses is definitely affected by something of that nature. Adam sprayed year long weed/everything killer on the rocks by the porch and the sidewalk. Emma helped to spread the mulch, ate and went straight to nap since it was after 2 PM and she usually naps right after 1 PM. She has been going to nap late this whole weekend! After she got up we went to our neighbor's house. Ula had her baby last Tuesday and Emma enjoyed watching the baby sleep and the older baby ( a 3 month old Kevin, Ula's brother's son). We had some barbecue and talked. It was really nice warm dry weather day. Perfect memorial day. I even got some sun. I went home to give Emma a much needed bath as she got quite dirty planting our garden. She didn't eat much this weekend and what she did eat was really not healthy. Lot of hot dogs, snack food, and sweets but unfortunately that was all that was available during barbecues. We had barbecue 3 days in a row for dinner. She did manage to eat some fruit for breakfast at least. She also went to bed late around 9:30 PM which is about an hour later than usual and slept most days until close to 9 AM. That's what long weekend are for right? Overall we had a good time and got a lot accomplished althought there is always more work waiting...