earlyaugust: June 2011

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Mountain Moments

Last weekend we went to the mountains for Aaron to do a consult with a lovely little college outside of Asheville. While dad worked, Gus and I spent hours in an awesome park complete with little creek running through it.

We waited until Aaron could meet to dive in, of course. Pregnant woman + slippery rocks = Bad News.

We were delighted with a seemingly very friendly goose that seemed to be stalking us a bit. He was gorgeous and a big show-off. The fun ended when he tried to take off with Gus' shoe which was a little terrifying.

Garden with Gus

We haven't posted pics of our raised garden beds that Aaron has been installing on the side of our house. They are awesome and to me, life changing. I have always wanted beds like these and we are having so much fun with them. Especially Gus.

We are growing tomatoes, cucumbers, dill, strawberries, rosemary, parsely, sunflowers, lilies, gladiolas, etc and there is always something to waters, snip or smell. Gus likes to monitor the monarch caterpillars on the dill and watch the tomatoes closely for signs of picking.

Rock'n

A very short still moment at Montreat as we watched the crazy goose and mom was able to get off of her feet....for about 3 minutes.

Pleeeeeasssse can we get back in the creek?

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Work With Dad

Friday, June 3, 2011

Bucket Head

Gus has become an active gardener. He likes to water the veggies and generally follow Aaron around with a shovel and wheel barrow.

He has even learned the names of some of the more sophisticated plants we have and throws them around in casual conversation (this pleases Aaron).

But its hard to beat wearing a plant container on your head for a good hour or so while doing work in your jammies.

1,2,3 ZOO

Over Memorial Weekend we took Gus to the Zoo for the first time. He was entranced before we had even gotten there with the idea of it. He had only heard of it from books and daycare.