Eleven Months

So our little angel is almost ONE! I can't believe it. Her first year flew by even faster than Bayleb's. Here she is at 11 months old, crawling around the living room and playing with everything (her favorite pastime).



Please note the hair. We have been putting it into little ponytails for about a month now. She has a lot of hair growing on the sides and back but not in the front, so her ponytails are on the very tip top of her head and stick straight up. It's really cute. I have learned the art of bow-making (kind of) and so try to expand her hair accessory collection. It takes like three minutes to make one, so I have made quite a few.



I have done quite a number of other crafty things I am proud of that I think I should blog about but I never do. Maybe I will someday.



My favorite things about Lu Lu right now are
- she crawls over and snuggles with my when I lay down on the floor,
- her smiles and giggles are given freely and make me melt
- she lets me do her hair although she often rips out the bow
- she has an independent little spirit that I know will carry her far in life
- she pats my back when I give her hugs
- she is not a picky eater
- she is still a light weight and easy on my back
- she loves to snuggle stuffed animals

Hello there....

Isn't it the best feeling when you see the first flowers of spring pushing their way through the dirt?

What beauties eh? I don't even remember what this flower is called but it is beautiful.



It's almost magical. It seems so impossible because it's so dead and cold. You think it will never end. But it does, and always sooner than I think. To me, when the bulbs show up, it truly is spring, no matter what the calendar says.




Here is a little dilemma though. So, we moved in the month of August a couple of years ago. I fixed the front garden area by putting in a brick border. The grass had over grown the east end of this little plot so much so that I moved the border back. I didn't want to deal with cutting out so much grass. So last spring, these little beauties show up on the wrong side of the border. There are no other bulbs in the garden except for the ones that I planted. Notice the one straggler on the bottom right of the picture.



So, does anyone know how to transplant bulbs correctly? I guess I should just google it and add order to the chaos of my garden. It's still exciting though.