Gardening

San Antonio has a perpetual growing season which means I am perpetually weeding. Big weeds and small seem to creep up overnight. I usually try to get the weeding in during the cooler morning hours right after we take Mia to school. Yesterday was no different. I sat in a patch of grass pulling little pretend grass out of my real grass. Talia and Tiago busied themselves about the yard and on the porch. I would periodically look up to see them playing cutely together and discussing many fascinating things about rollie pollies and what not.

I should have guess by the thrilled laughter that something messy was going on. When I dared to look up, I found my kids like this:





I guess after Tiago saved the rollie pollie from death by birds, he wanted to find him again which meant digging through the dirt and throwing it around. Talia wasn't about to let him have all the fun.




In the end, Tiago had to sweep up with a little help from me. He then said, "Thank you mommy for cleaning up. Now you should say thank you to me cause I helped too." Good point. So we had thanks all around and sprayed the rest off, sort of.