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.
Denial ...
Caliente!
