Working in the garden with Daddy- 18 months
May 18th, 2011 by Busy Mommy
From the looks of it, Nolan appears to be completing half the garden work himself. In all honestly, it’s still just a tad stressful for this daddy as he learns to adjust his workpace to accommodate a little guy under foot, behind foot, in front of foot, to side of foot, on top of foot, etc. etc. I try to remind him we don’t have a deadline, so working slower, much slower, is okay. Not that I’m the patience queen myself- after the second time of dumping an entire bag of nails into one of the vegetable beds I built, I impatiently told him not to do that anymore as I laboriously rummaged in the dirt to find all the scattered nails and took the nails away to someplace Nolan-proof. Poor guy is just playing cause and effect I guess, but it’s funny how tiresome picking up things and then re-picking them up and then re-picking them up again can get to a parent.
Nolan actually figured out pretty quickly that if he sawed with the smooth side down, he could actually, well, saw. 
Nolan is really into it all though and just loves to try to copy what we’re doing, whether it’s sawing or hammering, or pulling weeds. The pulling weeds thing needs some work. He managed to pull 2 kale plants up while my back was turned for only 2 seconds…..
I guess they do look like weeds! Of course to Nolan, everything is a weed to be pulled- if only we could teach him there’s a difference. For now the only way to keep some homegrown food around here is to plant extra in preparation of the plant casualties Nolan will cause- why just the other day I saw a poor little quarter inch long carrot lying helpless and dead on top of the soil, another victim of Nolan. It’s all worth it of course, because he is learning so much in the process.
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