Patio Garden

Last weekend Will, Dan and I were on a mission to create a patio garden. We dont really know much of anything about gardening but thought, "how hard can it be?" I had done a little reading, but really we figured we'd figure it out as we went along.

First stop was Home Depot. We bought some planter boxes, pebbles for the bottom, and gardening soil to fill it up. They didn't have that great of options as far as things to plant so we decided we needed to go to a nursery.

We searched on our phones for a nursery in Issaquah and found Squak Mountain Nursery. I think we spent the first 20 minutes just roaming around looking at everything and enjoying the warmth of the greenhouse. Then we finally asked someone for help. It was very apparent that we didn't know anything about gardening. We were told that most of the vegetables that we wanted to plant should not be planted until May.

We picked up some snap pea seeds and onion starts, which we were told we could plant now, but decided we'd have to come back in May for the rest of our veggies. We decided that we'd get enough flowers for a few planters. Will was the master mind behind which flowers were chosen. We aimed him towards the part shade (since our deck only gets sun the first half of the day) and let him loose.

We had fun planting all of the flowers the next morning. We are anxious to see sprouts come up from the few veggies we've planted so far, and also anxious to go get our other veggies in a month or 2.

(hopefully something will grow.... especially given the amount of money it cost to make this little patio garden.)

Laundry

Last night on our way home I told Will that after dinner I needed him to help me with some chores. I told him he could pick what he wanted to help with. Of course he wanted to do the bath tub and the toilets, but he also said he was going to fold the laundry all by himself. I knew that he wouldn't be able to fold it just how I like it done, but since I hate folding laundry I decided I could be ok with that. I left him with the load of laundry and went to do other chores. Every minute or so he'd come running over to where I was and would say "I found your underpants!" while waving around a pair of underwear. I'd send him back to continue to fold. After a few of these underpants run-ins he told me that he was all done. I went to check how it went and this is what I found.
For now I think I'll have him stick with bath tubs and toilets.

Crazy Hair

Will insisted for quite a while that he wanted long hair like his cousin Jack. Unfortunately, Will does not have the soft silky hair like Jack has, so his long hair didn't look quite as nice. Finally about a week ago he told me that he was ready for short hair again, so I jumped on the opportunity and cut it moments later. Here he is after his haircut.We ran into a small problem this morning though. Today is crazy hair day at school and Will doesn't have much hair to make crazy. Last crazy hair day he looked like this.

So we made do and borrowed this old, clown type wig from my parents house. Doesn't he make it look good. So cute!

Fun with Dan

Will really enjoyed the few days that he was with us while Dan was here. And I don't blame him because Dan had planned lots of fun activities. One of Will's favorites was his personal golf lesson by Dan, his very own golf pro. Dan even brought a special Will sized golf club.

I think we may have a future golfer on our hands.

Dan also brought a remote control helicopter for Will. We spent quite a while out in a grass field with Will flying the helicopter over our heads. Dan also brought a Wii for us to play. Will especially liked being able to decorate his own guitar hero guitar with the Aerosmith stickers. He loved the Wii sports resort games, and beat the socks off of both Dan and I in the jousting game.

We had lots of fun with Dan in town and can't wait for him to come back.

Super cleaner

I think Will gets this from the Hodson side, but he has always enjoyed cleaning. He likes for things to be clean, therefore he enjoys getting them that way. I use this to my advantage. Scrubbing toilets and cleaning tubs are 2 of his favorites. I love it because he is so detail-oriented that I don't even have to clean them after he's done. He usually asks me "mom is it perfect?" and he wont stop cleaning until I confirm that it is in fact "perfect."

FHE lesson

Last night Will taught the Family Home Evening lesson at my parents house. (FHE is a mormon tradition of family night, which usually includes some sort of church message/lesson, prayer, activity, song(except for in our family because we can't sing) and usually (always in our family) a dessert.) We let him teach it all by himself with no guidance. My mom gave him a book of pictures to help him get ideas. He showed us this picture and told us something close to the following story.

"And it came to pass (yes he really said that) that there was a boy and his brother. They had 2 cookies, one for the boy and one for his brother. When the boy got home he ate his cookie AND he ate his brothers cookie. Jesus told him that this was not nice and that we should love one another."

He also told us that the boy who ate the cookies is the one that Jesus has his arm around.

I've seen this picture many times, but never had heard this story. ;)

Valentines Crafts

Although Valentines Day is about a month away, Will and I decided to start getting in the spirit by making some Valentines crafts.

I was very impressed by Will's loop and staple skills. He didn't want any help, and he did quite a long string all my himself.
"Hey mom, it looks like an N!"

We also painted some heart shaped picture holders.

"Mom, does it look beautiful?!"

I think maybe we got a bit carried away with the streamers. :)