ready for spring, february 14, 2009

my little girl sofia loves to help me in the garden. she is four now, and today she had the idea that if she patted the dirt down in the big terracotta pots, it would help the bulbs below grow faster. she is explaining all of this to me here, shovel in hand, like a true little gardener: "i'm patting the dirt down so the bulbs will come up nice and padded." she doesn't know what the bulbs will look like, or what their names will be, but she knows that they will be cool looking. we spent the day making valentines. sofia figured out exactly what she wanted to put into each of the thirty red envelopes, and i cut out the hearts. she wanted to make them all by herself, and she didn't like it that I had to help her.