Green Fingers?

So this week we thought we would try a bit of gardening. I attempted to salvage my somewhat dried out/dead herbs and Si took on the beast that is the garden. All in all it was a successful attempt, aside from the herbs. I managed to "napalm the rockery" as Si put it and managed to prune every bush and plant within an inch of it's life. And as you can see Baby J has taken to it like a true little professional! I don't think he gets his green fingers from his mum! I just do not seem to have an ounce of talent for the garden in my body. I pull up plants and let the weeds run rife, because they "have pretty flowers on them". Not good when you have ripped out all of the perennials and have dead headed the roses, which did not need doing. Plus this week I managed to learn what happened when you gave something root shock. I don't think the tree will survive now! Oh well it was good quality time spent as a family, even if Si had to spend most of the time rectifying what I damage I had done! Oops!

We thought that we would embrace the Easter week trying to become one with nature. J has become the very proud owner of a watering can and several gardening tools and to be honest is doing a better job than us! Aside from a couple of tumbles and a very long paddy about not being allowed to eat the compost heap ( how unreasonable we are as parents!!!) he has had the time of his life.

We unfortunately (only for us!)  managed to introduce him to the hose pipe. Big big big mistake!! Grandma took her life into her own hands whilst tyring to film him watering the patio, the car and himself with the water. She survived pretty much unscathed, however the garden took a bit of a battering! J looked like he had been showering and went into a terrible melt down when took the hose off him. He then preceeded to jog around the garden with 2 adults chasing after him to try and dry him off, which he was not best pleased about.

Easter this year was truly wonderful filled with family and friends. I actually think this was the best one so far. J is big enough to enjoy the actvities, to an extent, and abviously likes to eat the chocolate (who doesn't??), but for me it has been a really amazing time. I had the priviledge of my beatuiful cousins company for the weekend and a wonderful meal out with my gorgeous hubby and his family and a lie in until 11.30am!!!! Yes I repeat 11.30am!! Woo hoo! It was like being in my twenties again. Plus I managed to sneak in a little baking with some hot cross buns which went down famously. Plus Si made one of his amazing pies.

So the question is does it get any better than this? The answer is no. As long as I stick to the cooking and the house and J and leave the garden to the experts!!