Is this Gardening?

We had a date with Papa today.

He wanted to do something called "Gardening" in our back yard.

I don't think Rebacca understood the idea behind this activity.

Mommy calls going out in the back yard "weeding" we tend to pull everything the grows back there, out. Papa wanted to make wholes and take rocks out all day. What was that about?

All weekend, Rebecca has been preparing herself for this date with Papa. Today, she picked out her clothes, as you can see, she picked a skirt (not what she would wear for weeding) and was ready to go when Papa got here today.
To her surprise, they headed out back, grabbed different tools than what mommy uses, and started "gardening."
I really don't think Papa was prepared for what he found back there. We do live in the city of Rocklin and it has that name for a reason. the ground here is all rock.

Irving says 'it was a rock quarry before the houses started being built.'

I think he should have spoken up sooner.

Side Walk Fun

We are here again in the middle of three digit weather.

This time we are waiting for Daddy to come home for dinner. So we were in the front lawn, under the shade of out big oak tree.

The great opportunity came along, and the neighbors sprinklers started to water the lawn. Of course, Rebecca found it very opportune and decided to make the best of it.

I think I have also mentioned this, that Rebecca does not like getting too dirty, or messy.

Here she is sitting beside the sprinkles, with her juice beside her, enjoying the spray of the water while staying just out of the main sprinklers' way.

There are some of her ingenious ways of getting cool, staying clean, but getting the most out of her fun all at the same time.

Did I mention what a genius Rebecca is?

Working in the Garden

We had great weather for doing yard work today. Rebecca and I got an early start to beat the three digit temp. As you can see, Rebecca is a pro at this now. She is ready in her sweats, gardening shoes and blue gloves. As is her usual, she heads straight to the flowers, so she can smell them.

But as we can see in these pictures, she is not a light weight. Rebecca is not known to shy away from hard and heavy labor.

But just so everyone knows, she is using the proper lifting technique. She is lifting with her knees, not her back.

But in case you are worried about a two year old doing heavy lifting, this is not a full bucket, and she does have a smaller one she uses to fill with weeds and rocks.

Here we are after a well deserved bath, very hungry and eating fresh, juicy oranges. On this day, Rebacca actually ate everything on her tray. She had chicken taquitos and milk juice and of course orange slices.

Green Day

Today was all about Green for us. Rebecca decide early today that she was going to wear this very green dress her Tio Ofilio brought her all the way from Nicaragua.

After a day with Tio Ofilio, to show him that Rebecca loves his present, Rebecca decided to practice her pedaling.

She is concentrating very hard, trying not to drop Bunny and ride at the same time.

As soon as she saw the camera out, she started to pose. this is the shy look, the over the shoulder glance, I think, she has perfected. There were a lot more, but there is only so much space we can use.

Discovering and trying to keep her discoveries in her pockets.

Today Rebecca is pocketing everything the color green, leaves and other little objects that can fit in her two little pockets.

Just something new she started doing. Mommy gets to find all sorts of things, some yucky, some indescribable, some living and others not so much alive.