'Matoes

We decided to try our hand at a little bit of gardening this year. We didn't have a ton of room to work with, so we just planted some tomatoes and peppers. The pepper plants had an unfortunate meeting with a weed whacker, so it was all up to the tomatoes to make our gardening dreams come true. They didn't disappoint.

This was about a month or so ago:

And today:

Wow, I'm so embarrassed about all the weeds! Well, mostly its mint. Turns out mint never, ever goes away. I've cleared that mint out more times than I can count, and it returns again and again. In fact, I think it comes back stronger each time. Not cool. Anyway, we've had an awesome crop. We planted four cherry tomatoes and four regular (big boy? I can't remember the exact type) plants. T LOVES the "matoes". We actually don't usually get to pick too many because she eats them as soon as they're any shade of red. And sometimes when they're green too. I love when she'll come in from playing out there and be covered in little tomato seeds and chomping away on another one. We did get out to pick some before she got to them yesterday:

Totally worth having to drag our hose through the house every day to water them.

Right after this picture I had to go change and feed Nora, and when I could finally investigate why T was being so quiet I found this:

Every day I regret buying her that stool. And the aftermath:

Here's T modeling both the tomatoes and her new dress today:

I got some Mickey pajamas a few months ago because I thought T would like if I wore them, but she seriously couldn't have cared less. And I never, ever wear the shirt, so I decided to make it into a dress for T instead. She loves it! It was super easy, it only took about 45 minutes to do. The sleeves are a little tight (sleeves are totally my nemesis when sewing!), but the rest of it fits, so I'll call it a win.