Sunflower Time

It's sunflower time! This will be the third year we have done this tradition. Clara and I have enjoyed the last two years of doing this. It's been fun to watch her learn about how something as beautiful and big as sunflowers starts as a very small seed. I have such a fondness for flowers and gardening. I can remember spending time with my Great Grandma in her yard, watching her garden, and being amazed at the vastness of her knowledge and talented green thumb. Those memories of my Great Grandma, inspire me to share that joy with my daughter. A daughter who by no coincidence shares the same name.

Oops, got a little off track there. Anyway, it's fun to watch the wonder in the little eyes as the little, dirt covered seeds grow quickly, week by week, into mammoth stalks. I loved taking those weekly pictures and seeing how the little girl standing beside the flowers grows just as much from spring the the end of summer. It will be interesting to see if Colton is as fascinated as Clara has been. And, if he cooperates with the weekly picture taking ritual.

 Miss Clara....nothing to say about this pose.

Getting the seeds buried

Colton really liked dumping the dirt

 

 This year's first official sunflower picture,

Colton wouldn't sit still long enough to say in the shot!

 I have a feeling getting Colton is these

weekly shots is going to be a lot of work.

The seeds are planted. The pots are watered. Now, we wait and watch them grow...flowers and kids!