I'm so grateful for our yard. Each day, about 15 minutes before Nathan's bedtime, Jay takes him outside to the backyard, just to hang out. They walk around (Nathan can walk nearly the whole width of the yard now), eat cherry tomatoes off the vine, touch the apples, or just sit on the grass. It's lovely.
I enjoy the wonderful 15 minutes of silence in the house :)
There's only one little thing I don't like about our yard: our sunflowers. They are Jay's favourite flowers and he planted them along the back fence. But I find sunflowers a bit...creepy. They have such large heads that droop from their weight, and they're much larger than any flower ought to be. Anyway, I keep my mouth shut because Jay loves them. Except now there's something even creepier than our giant sunflowers - ones with multiple heads! Ack!
Good thing we have a beautiful rose bush I can focus on instead.
Our apples will probably be ripe for the picking in a few weeks. I ate this one today, and while it looked lovely, it was a bit tasteless.
And...here's Nathan taking a couple of steps.
