Summer 2008

August is a year and a half now and is crawling all over the place and now pulling up to stand.  He’ll try it on anything; furniture, curtains, someone’s leg, the swing, his brother, anything he can get his hands on, even if it moves.  He had a really intense appointment with Dr. Judy.  She did some lower spine adjustments, hip release, upper rib cage release.  He sobbed and sputtered and coughed the nastiest cough I’ve ever heard.  I kept waiting for the bodily fluid expulsion, but it never came.  It sounded like he was bringing up massive amounts of liquid, but they never came out.  Well, something came out the other end, but where did the snot go?  Hopefully he swallowed it and didn’t aspirate.  I do not want a repeat performance of last winter’s run to the emergency room and 3 week stint in the ICU.  So, he’s growing, he’s moving, he’s still not eating much, but the other stuff is really cool to see.  We are very, very proud of him.

I’m also pretty excited about our vegetable garden.  This year we are growing:

Tomatoes:

Matt’s Wild Cherry heirloom (so good and sugary)
La Roma Gold (sadly, blossom rot)

Early Girl Blush (again, the rot)

Cherokee Purple heirloom (will turn dusty pink to dark purple when ripe.  cool.)

Sun Gold (yum, like tangerines!)

Italian Eggplant, Cucumber, Honeydew Melon, Watermelon (planted from seed by Porter), Rainbow Swiss Chard, Zuchinni, Giant Pumpkins, Romaine Lettuce, Red Leaf Lettuce, Bibb Lettuce, Basil.