Gardening!

Every year we have a garden in our backyard--except last year when my toes were the size and consistency of Vienna Sausages and my cankles rendered me immobile--we always plant a lovely vegetable garden!

Naturally, Canaan must earn her keep, so we quickly teach her how to hoe the rows, pick the weeds, water the garden, prune the tomatoes, and look for the slugs that try to eat the lettuce. Unfortunately, Canaan has only mastered one vital component of gardening--eating the dirt. Much like a worm, Canaan helps aerate the soil and ensures her saliva adds a PH balance that only an 11-month old's mouth could produce.

In the following video, you can see how Canaan struggles to move the rake out of the way so she can clear a section of dirt to eat.

And after a long, hard day working in the garden, Canaan is OUT. In her typical "Mowgli" fashion, (in The Jungle Book when Mowgli was walking around with the elephants...Canaan crawls just like that), Canaan leaves the yard. Off to eat bigger and dirtier things.

This is a picture of Canaan by our mailbox and those flowers. It looks like she's waiting for the mail man.

And these are the CUTEST pictures of Canaan at our mountain house where my dad has "strategically" let the flowers/grass grow really long in his backyard. Nice, dad.

In this picture, Canaan makes an important discovery--if flowers grow in dirt, and I like to eat dirt, then surely I would like to eat flowers, too!

All I can say, is Canaan does not have a deficiency in certain vitamins and minerals found in "naturally derived substances." And that's why we only use organic soil and plants.