Choo, Choo!

We were out in St. Charles/Geneva for a friend's 40th birthday this weekend and made it a mini-weekend getaway. Between our friends and my co-worker's family, who all live out there with kids, we got some terrific tips for fun things to do with Alex. By far the highlight of the trip for him was eating lunch at 2 Toots. They have train tracks running through the whole place, and your food is delivered by train. He loved it!

The caboose is red!



Here come more trains!



My food just came off of that train.

Letters

Sometimes Alex calls numbers "letters." Last night he saw the number 2 and the number 3 and was talking about them and called them letters. Dave and I explained the difference between numbers and letters, and as we were explaining letters Dave said the first few letters of the alphabet. This lead Alex to sing the Alphabet Song. When he finished, he exclaimed excitedly, "Someone wrote a song for the letters!"

This Year's Garden

This afternoon we finally got out to plant some seeds and get the garden up and running for the year. The oregano and mint came back from the winter, and we planted two types of basil, carrots, and lettuce today. We still need to pick up a tomato plant, but I'm glad to have the seeds in. Alex was a good helper, but he likes the watering part of gardening a bit too much. Hopefully the seeds won't get too waterlogged. The mint and oregano are clearly able to survive anything, so I'm not too worried about those.

Covering the seeds with dirt.



"Gently" patting down the dirt.



Here comes the water!



The proud gardener. (You can see how well the oregano came back. The container is already overflowing, and we haven't done anything to it.)