One Project Down...

YAY!!! We finally got to do our flower bed! Today was the perfect day, too! Lots of sunshine but not too hot. I am a teeny bit sunburned, but our flower bed is presentable!!! We prayed over it, so we think it will make it this year. Just so you can fully appreciate my excitement, let me remind you how our flower bed looked BEFORE:And NOW... it looks like this:

A closer look at one part of the flower bed:We also added some pretties to the smaller flower beds on the sides of the house. One look at some of the improvements made:

It took all day, and it would have taken longer, but my dad and my cousin Melvin who is visiting from Chicago came by and helped Tyler dig the holes early this morning. We are pleased with the end result. The pictures aren't fantastic, because the sun was starting to set when I ran inside to get the camera.

What we would like to do now is plant a tiny little garden with a vegetable or two in the back yard behind a little slope so it wouldn't be seen from the road. (Our neighborhood association is somewhat strict, so we would have to be discreet about it.) We aren't 100% positive that gardening is something we are ready for, so it might have to wait a couple of years. We'll just have to see. I wonder if there's anything that it isn't too late to plant... (Mental note: Ask Papa Bob when to plant bell peppers and cucumbers. Or maybe squash would be better... It doesn't get too tall.)

Anyway, here's what Adelyn did while we were hard at work (Tyler admittedly harder than I)...

She loves standing up these days. She hasn't turned loose and walked yet, but she will stand up all day long while holding on to something. She wants to walk, but we need some work on the balance aspect of walking before that will happen. Until then, she is super excited to hold on to her daddy's fingers and run from the front door to the back door, and back to the front door, then the back door again, etc... You get the picture.

Also... Adelyn's vocabulary is exploding! She has become quite the little mockingbird, and she is learning new things all the time. Her favorite word at the moment is "light". When asked where the light is, she immediately looks up, finds a light, and says "LIGHT!" She also says it when she just happens to notice a light in a given room. She's fascinated with lights. Other new words she is saying are "glasses" (she learned that while playing with her PawPaw's sunglasses), "necklace" (one of her new favorite toys is a beaded necklace that I never wear and let her play with), "keys" (what baby doesn't love keys?) and "outside" (her favorite place to go). "Light" is the plainest-sounding, because she says it constantly now. She also says "monkey" every now and then, when she is playing with her monkey that Tyler gave her for Valentine's Day. (The monkey's name is "Monkey-Bug".) She's still saying "Daddy", "bye-bye", "Paw-Paw", and "hey", and she even says "Ash-ee" now (her version of "Ashley", who is my sister), but still no "Mama" or "Mommy"! Don't feel sorry for me, though... I get all the kisses! She likes to give me sweet kisses now. The kind you have to wipe off afterwards... It's so sweet!

So that's what's new with the Lowroses... Now watching a little Final Four action and relaxing a little from our long day while Adelyn snoozes away in her crib. Blessed we ARE. God bless you, too!