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Adopting Elizabeth or better yet, Adopting Mommy!

I am adding to this post, not removing the original content. And I'd like to say that it has been a beautiful journey to be Elizabeth's Mom and to be part of her life. I hope Eli, that one day you can go over this blog that I've created for you and that you will cherish our lives together. I'd like to title this blog" Adopting Mommy" instead. You've taken me, accepted me and made me a better person.

Original Post from 2008 when I created this blog: Some of the pics were taken at the foster home where she has lived since she was born. We have received these photos on a monthly basis together with her medical reports.

Adiciono a este parrafo, sin quitar el contenido original escrito en el 2008 cuando inicie este blog. Ha sido una experiencia fundamental en mi vida el ser madre y especialmente, madre de Eli. Y espero que un dia no muy lejano, puedas revisar cada comentario escrito, cada detalle de este blog y te llenes de alegria recordando cada viaje, anecdota, situacion, dia, evento, vividos juntas. Deseo llamar este blog " Adoptando a Mami" porque me has acogido, aceptado y moldeado para ser la persona que hoy soy.

Parrafo original:

Esta es nuestra Eli. Algunas de las
fotos han sido tomadas en la casa de familia donde ha vivido desde que nacio y
que recibimos junto con un reporte mensual medico.





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Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Vegetable Garden

This year we decided to have a raised bed vegetable garden and so by the end of April, Greg started the construction of it. He did everything. Greg selected, measured and marked the area, prepared the soil and planted the garden. April was still too cold and windy for me to be outside so I did not show up in the working area very much, not even when Greg suggested that I could go and take a closer look at it. But I was not indifferent to the garden or to Greg who worked so hard. On the contrary, I was following all the development from the kitchen window and took enough pictures to document the evolution and construction of the raised garden.



On this blog entry I have attached pics of the garden as well as some pics of Eli that are already two months old and If I don't post them today then I don't know when it will happen. I hope you enjoy it.



This is my baby on a sunny day


Here she is wearing her converse sneakers, the only ones that she cannot take off at school to walk bare foot



Here she is helping Dad pick up some wood outside of the house



No, she is not grumpy, it's just that she does not like pictures anymore. I wonder why...


And I was the same way with my father who used to take hundreds of pics of me per minute


And here we have the chosen area for the vegetable garden. Greg worked for almost half a day removing the grass in the area that you see in the pic


But then our wonderful neighbor must have felt pity for him and decided to help him out


And in about two hours, he did the rest of the garden (more than 3/4 of it)
And here is the tiny but great helper

Eli helped Dad all the way through the process. She was outside with daddy the entire time in different occasions


The construction of the garden was a process of many long weekends

But she didn't give up. No, no, she loved it. Eli would get in the pile of soil, play with the worms, pick them up, kiss them and put them back on the ground and to the less lucky ones she would just cut in half and leave them alone.

In this photo you can see the raised beds being built

And a tiny flower in one of them





What is she saying here?


Eli loves books and loves when somebody reads with her. She is pretty good at passing the pages, pointing at things, repeating and naming things from the books and pretty much all that involves having a book available, like tearing it apart as well.





I don't remember why she looks so frustrated. Maybe Mommy quit reading with her to take the picture.

Nice jeans little girl



And now on to Mommy's desk




I took this photo on a Saturday afternoon after she quit working in the garden. Eli was so exhausted that she slept fom 1pm until a little bit longer than 5pm. This is very unusual for her. She usually takes 45 minute naps or sometimes she does not take one at all. Greg was so concerned about her that he would go and check on her every 15 minutes during the last two hours of nap. I was a little bit worried too but she looked so much in peace and her breathing was so strong that she couldn't have been happier.

Another day at the garden

These pics are with my adorable aunt Betty who came from Caracas last May

Here you can see that the garden is all finished. Greg even put some chicken wire around it to avoid any animals from coming (well, at least some) and also to help with the growing of the peas, beans and other vegetables that need some support for growing.

We also planted...oops, sorry. Greg also planted tomatoes, beets which I love, broccoli, kale, spinach, garlic, onions, scallions, red peppers, jalapeno peppers, corn, carrots, baby carrots, lettuce and all sort of herbs like cilantro, basil, etc. Greg started some of the herbs and plants inside the house and then transplanted them to the garden. It looks pretty nice now.

This is me just for fun. Nowadays nobody takes pictures of me so I have to do a close-up once in a while.

























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