It's been teacher appreciation week...

.... Mercer's daycare sent along a form asking that the students do little things for his teacher(s) each day this week. He has one main teacher, Ms Angela, who watches him the bulk of the day. There's also someone who gets there early to watch him before Ms Angela gets there for the day and another teacher who stays later 'til we pick him up at the end of the day. Little guy is there at daycare for 8 - 10 hours the three days a week that he goes, but he likes it. I remember the first month that he attended, I absolutely hated it -- but that had everything to do with his original teacher. Ms Angela is very sweet and gentle and we hope that rubs off on Mercer! So, we are definitely appreciative of her! Honestly - I don't see how she does it every day... hanging out with 6 babies and keeping such a positive attitude. Wow. (There's one kid, Matthew, who's not there for the class picture.) We had a good week - walked up to the farmer's market over the weekend and bought some tomato plants for our garden, a basil plant, and a squash plant. We've never done squash - so we'll see how that goes. Another new thing for us this year: lettuce. We planted lettuce sprouts a month or more ago. And, we've recently been harvesting them / having some great salads! It will be fun when little guy is old enough to help get things from the garden and eat what he picks. Maybe by the time the tomatoes are ready later this summer?

I think that Mercer will enjoy harvesting things from the garden. This past weekend I was doing some yard work (moving around some bushes and flowers in the yard and mulching). He "helped" me out a little bit. As I was pushing around the wheelbarrow full of mulch, he got to walk behind me pushing his little walking wagon. It was really cute. Sometimes, however, he wanted to help me push the big wagon too. This is good stuff...