Mom Gets a Hobby

Great news! Dad is always telling Mom, "Babe, you need a hobby." Now, I don't know what a hobby is, but Dad says they are healthy. So you can imagine how happy we all were whenever Mom announced that she had one. Mom said she wanted to declarate the patio. Sounded like a good idea to me, because I remember whenever we put up declarations for Christmas and that was pretty fun.

We live in a very pretty part of North East Portland. It is so pretty in fact that Mom likes to take me out on the patio and sing a song called, "Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree" with me. So me and Mom thought it would be good to plant some flowers on the patio. We bought some flowers at the Home Depot near our house. We got some daffodils, lillies, and tulips. Some of them were already flowers, others were bulbs that Dad said would grow into flowers, but I've never seen a lightbulb do that.

I was really excited to help Mom with her hobby. I tried to dig a hole to put the flowers in on the patio but the concrete was too hard so we decided to put them into a big barrel we filled with dirt. Dirt, I've discovered, is pretty fun to put your toes in.

I don't know if you've ever planted flowers but it is not easy work. First you have to figure out how you want to arrange the lightbulbs to grow. Then you have to dig in the dirt with your shovel. Then you have to lick the shovel. Then you have to wrestle with Mom. After that you have to put the flowers in the dirt. Then you have to water the flowers which is really hard work so you have to get an occasional drink from the water can. And of course all that work makes you hungry so you have to eat some dirt. Dirt, by the way, is not very tasty. When you have everything planted you have to make sure that all of the flowers are working ok. Then you play with Mom some more.

It is fun to grow things. Like Mom is growing a little baby in her tummy. This week we found out that it is a my little sister Regan Nicole. (I think we got her at Home Depot too.)

-Taylor Marie Young