It's the end of the summer, and for the most part, I would say that our garden was a great success. We hardly bought a veggie at the store all summer long (minus lettuce and carrots the latter part of August). We ate stirfry with fresh veggies, fresh green salad, dirty carrots, sweet strawberries, sugar snap peas off the vine. We canned 9 jars of green beans too (will do LOTS more of those next summer when I nix a few of our veggie selection...corn and cauliflower for sure). So today, we were tending to the garden and saw these tiny little cantaloupes growing on the vine. Literally the size of a small tomato. Bailey says, "Let's pick a cantaloupe!" I say, "No, Bailey, they aren't ripe yet." And she picks one up (totally Bailey-style not to listen, you know) and it was one that had already fallen off the vine. So, I bring it up to my nose to smell, and it's as sweet smelling as any cantaloupe I have ever smelled. "It's ripe Bailey! Let's go inside and have it for a snack!"
So, here's Bailey with her cantaloupe. It easily fits in the palms of her hands. We cut it open...look at how ripe and juicy it was! Still, it's only the size of one small tomato from our garden. Doesn't that tomato look delish, by the way? But needless to say, Bailey ate the whole thing. She has eaten a half of a cantaloupe before...but now I can confidently say that my daughter can eat an entire cantaloupe by herself!
And of course, I just had to throw in a picture of our little Sam, three months old tomorrow. Isn't he a doll?
