I just had to post about Grady's love of plants and gardening. He loves to go with me to the nursery (like he wants to buy everything there!), loves flowers, and loves to plant things! He has always been like this. Since he was big enough to dig he has been helping us with our yard. This year we have planted strawberry seeds, zinnia seeds (an Easter gift for him - they are already sprouting!), tomatoes from seeds, and flower boxes. Last year we planted sunflower seeds that grew into HUGE flowers by mid-summer. It's not like he just wants to plant and be done with it either. He wants to check all the plants every morning and lovingly cares for them. I just love all of the lessons that a child can learn through gardening. And I really hope that we get some tomatoes from these seeds so he can actually eat what we grew!
Here he is planting his Elmo tomato garden (it starts like a little greenhouse and then you can put them in the ground when they get bigger)
Another bonus of his love for plants is that whenever Eric and Grady go to the grocery store together I get flowers! Eric says 9 times out of 10 it is Grady's idea. And even if Eric suggests it, Grady always wants to pick them out. Then they sit on our table for the next 1-2 weeks and he asks all sorts of questions about them and notices every tiny change. Just this morning he was commenting on which buds had opened since yesterday and was asking when I thought the other ones would open.
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