Tomatoes for Two

When "Nayson" came to visit, 

his grandma gave him two tomato plants

to give to Piper and Elliotte.

He was very pleased with himself.

I was horrified.

The poor little guy had no idea

that he was bringing these beautiful plants to their doom!

I do NOT have a green thumb,

so this was going to be a challenge.

Piper and I have been trying our best to take 

extra good care of our plants.

I water them before I feed my kids in the morning

(great parenting I know)

and I hide them in the corner of the patio when it's windy.

Piper likes to water them 

FREQUENTLY

when she's outside playing with her water table,

but best of all,

she talks to them and sings to them often.

We are determined to make these things grow!!!!

Today we decided to transplant them into bigger and nicer 'homes'

with some new soil.

I even bought fancy self-watering pots to help these poor plants out.

I thought Piper would be all over this,

but she was disgusted by the dirt. 

lol.

She wanted no part of touching it,

so I was on my own until they needed to be watered. 

After I took so much care transplanting them

and Piper carefully watered them,

I brought Elliotte outside 

so that I could get a photo of each of my girls with their plants. 

We took this photo about 2 seconds before Elliotte's little hand clamped down on one

and we could't get her to let go.

Mark and I were trying everything to get her fingers open,

while Piper watched completely fascinated.

Needless to say,

the plant on the right is now sporting a few less leaves. 

(Blushing!)

Fingers crossed that we will be picking some ripe tomatoes soon!

xo

xo

Tiny tomato growers!
(Elliotte was a little too eager to pick hers!)