Aubree and Maya in the back yard... picking corn.... and just being sweet and silly. It is good to have Aubree home for the summer. They are really enjoying the long days of just plain good kid fun.

align="center">Stake Garden

We went to the stake garden today to harvest some fresh vegetables. Corn, cucumbers, zucchini, crookneck squash, peppers, green beans, and okra (yes, I'm going to try out the okra-- I was told that you can chop it up and add it to soups or stews and it will act as a natural thickener). The tomatoes and melons are not quite ready yet. The girls had a good time running around the "farm" and looking for vegetables to to add to our basket.

It was a hot day (already) even though it was only 10 in the morning. The girls refreshed with a dip of their hands in the nice, cool and irrisistable irrigation water.

"Tractor gonna get me!!!!" was the tune of the trip. There was a tractor working in the neighboring field and Ella was terified of it. She cried and cried and cried... and falling into the mud didn't seem to calm her down at all.

We found a bird's nest built on one of the corn stalks and to our surprise there were a couple of baby birds nestled up inside of it. One had its beak wide open and up in the air, as if it was waiting for its mama to return with a meal. It kind of reminded me of Kate.