The Dog Days of Summer

Wow looking back, its been a while since I last posted. A testament to how busy we've been around here at Woodland. It has been so miserably and record breakingly hawt! Yet the kiddies could play outside most of the day if you keep the little pool filled. I love the fact they would rather play outdoors in a heartbeat!

As you can see the tomato crop is plentiful this year. Little Miss AnnaBelle enjoys counting and stacking them while I put them up. Along with the butterbeans and corn we are stocking the freezer full! Tomorrow I am going to make a batch of fig jam. Our tree is loaded with them this year.

My sunflowers this year bloomed in spectacular fashion and I didn't realize we had planted such a variety. Tomorrow I'll harvest what seeds I have left that the birds haven't enjoyed.

I'm keeping Nathan busy this summer. He enjoyed bible school at Rocky Hock UMC for the third year in a row and each year more and more children are attending. So good to see such a great turnout this year. This past week I signed him up for 3 days of tennis camp (MWF) at Cypress Cove. He absolutely loves it. So much that I am signing him up for a full week the second week in August. We played some on the basketball court this evening and had quite a few rallies. It was so nice playing tennis with my little man, what a special evening!

Papa's pool has been a nice respite after Nathan's tennis practices. AnnaBelle is getting to be a better swimmer everytime she gets into the pool. Nathan is learning to dive but it just looks like a cannon ball/belly flop! :)

The butterbeans are plentiful this season. We have been getting rain when we need it, such a different circumstance from last year. I picked over half bushel this morning. We're still doing the patch therapy on AnnaBelle's right eye (the good one) She has an appointment at the end of August and if this isn't going to work, I am thinking against the surgery. It will only correct the straightness which isn't that slightly off, but will not correct the vision. So I see no need in putting her through it.

My little girl will be starting preschool in the fall! She is doing so well on her potty training, I have been so proud of her. Still a ways to go, but what progress we have made!! :)