The Tangrens

Am I the only one who thought that it was "Patty cake"? "Pat a cake" does make more sense. Well Hyrum is finally doing "pat a cake" by himself. I know that most kids are doing it much earlier and he'd clap our hands together or clap his hands together but he'd never do all of the motions. Well apparently it has clicked. A couple of days ago he was feeling particularly cooperative and did it for the camera so now you get to see his fun new accomplishment. :)


He has always loved playing "Ring around the Rosie" too and began to play it by himself shortly thereafter. He'd turn in circles while his one arm was up in the air. I don't know why the one arm was important but it was for awhile. Now he'll even do the "we all fall down" part. This video was taken on the same cooperative morning.


You'll have to excuse my tired voice it was first thing in the morning and I wasn't quite awake.

My boss was out here from Florida this week visiting and taking care of some things at headquarters. He's also a big baseball fan (he goes to a lot of Marlin's baseball games) and decided to treat us all to a baseball game at Franklin Covey Field to see the local minor league team, the Salt Lake City Bees play. Sunny had Young Women's so it was just Hyrum and I who go to enjoy the game.


We got up there right after the first pitch and I was surprised how good Hyrum was. He'd have his moments of wiggiliness, but for the most part he was really well-behaved. Luckily there were a few other people who had brought their kids, and so they were able to entertain one another. Hyrum was so fascinated with one little boys baseball mitt.

We endured a swarm of gnats and a little sprinkle of rain, but otherwise couldn't have asked for a better night for a baseball game. Unfortunately, the Bees fell to their Oklahoma opponents 7-4. Toward the end of the night, Hyrum just sat contently in my lap watching the game. We had a good time and look forward to many more baseball games in the future.

I've been going on and on about my garden lately failing to mention word one about my second garden. We started this garden about a month or more after my first garden. I guess the reason why I fail to mention this garden at all is because it's very low maintenance. Our generous hosts and partner in produce tilled compost into the land ran a soaker hose around in the furrow and then placed black plastic over the entire garden. We came a day or so later and cut holes in the plastic where we planted our plants and haven't done much since. Our lovely host waters it by turning on the soaker hose every day, fertilizes it once a week and weeds where there is a hole in the plastic. Besides the unfortunate weeding by her son where he meticulously plucked every last broccoli plant but one and started down the row of carrots before we caught him and the mysterious garden egging all it has done is grown and flourished with little or no need for care. Our first tomatoes will come out of that garden and it was our first hope of zucchini and summer squash. We have neglected and scorned this poor garden ( Derek's only been there twice while he goes to the other one twice a week) and I decided it needed a little love and praise. So to you my beautiful "step" garden, this post is for you!

I'd heard stories when I was pregnant about the plants in a new mom's home suffering long slow deaths as a result of the neglect given them because of the very demanding new resident. I thought that would never happen to my plants....I was mistaken.
This was taken when I was 5 months along. Look at us both! So big and full. ( ok so I'm a bit bigger and fuller than the plant) But we were both so healthy and happy.
This is the plant today. We've put it at Derek's work in the hopes that it might be revived. I'm not holding my breath.