are you sure you and ben don't want to keep going? cuz you make pretty babies. and i'm curious to see how different each additional baby would look. 🙂 glow is a good mix of all of you! 🙂 are you sure?? maybe just one more! haha!
so cute!! Please write a post about your Hypnobirthing experience please! I am going to do it for this delivery, and would love your insight on your experience!!
the birth happened so fast and now it all feels kind of surreal just thinking about it. i will write it down, but for some reason my heart just isn't exactly quite ready to. it was such an emotional time i think.
She is soooo adorable! Do you use the swaddeling-method of Harvey Karp? It looks like this. Does it really work? I really want to know, because I'm thinking about using it for my baby.
i looked up the harvey karp method and that is indeed how i swaddle my babies. so the hospital they were born at follows that method as well. i am sure you can find a plethora of you tube videos on that method of swaddling.
We are already into our summer garden, but this is how our winter garden fared:
Romanesco (above photo, top left) - The 6 plants grew slower than we hoped. Started from seed at the very end of November, the buds weren't evident until a few months after. Unfortunately it appeared to be too late for our warmer temperatures because they bolted. The small heads that were there blew out like a slow motion firework and we never got to enjoy them.
Kalettes (above photo, top right) - This was the most anticipated veggie that's a kale-Brussels sprout hybrid. And now in June, month 7, the suspense continues to build! They are painfully sllllllllooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww growers. All the leaves you see there are not the actual kalettes. Rather, the kalettes grow just like Brussels sprouts, attached to the stalk at the "armpit" of where the large leaves you see in the photo connect to the main, vertical stalk. However, instead of looking like mini-cabbages like Brussels sprouts, the finished product is more reminiscent of a shuttlecock. Three different varieties are there and the kalettes just started to form in the last couple weeks. We're almost there!
Bok Choy (above photo, vacated spot, middle left) - We harvested it just like the ones you see in the store. Oops. Evidently it's a gift that can keep on giving, so long as you remove some of the leaves (not all at the same time!) We enjoyed it, but could've enjoyed it more had we harvested it differently
Fennel (above photo, middle, center) - We all love fennel. Ben doesn't like licorice but loves fennel (which has a licorice flavor), so it's possible to like it even if you don't like licorice. This is one of the veggies the girls get unusually excited about! Unfortunately, it is a one-hit wonder (when it's harvested once, that's all), but totally worth it).
Broccoli Raab (above photo, middle right) - This bountiful and bitter vegetable grew so fast; we just weren't ready for it with all the fruit tree planting back in January and February. It bolted and flowered shortly thereafter. Bummer since it's one of our favorites. The girls, not so much... their palettes aren't as accepting to such sharp and spicy flavors.
Mixed greens (above photo, bottom left) - The most generous vegetable by far. Like grass (or hair)... you cut it and it grows right back. Saved a lot on bagged mixed greens over the 3 months it was in ground!
Carrots (above photo, bottom right) - All shapes, sizes, and colors. The girls had a lot of fun popping these with ease out of the ground.
We learn new things every season we have new crops. We'd plant everything again, just making the changes mentioned in the tending approaches. The jury is still out on the kalettes to see if they'll be worth hogging up nearly an entire bed for over half of a year! Tomatoes are now in the bottom 2 beds, but since the kalettes continue taking the scenic route journeying to their destination, it prevented a 3rd bed for tomatoes that are so dear to our hearts and tummies!
She is beautiful!!
she is the most precious thing I've seen all day.
she looks so wise.
Congrats!! What a little doll face!
<3 <3 <3
love love LOVE!
and yes, no baby yet! I think she wants to stay inside forever!!!
I know I have said it before but she is simply adorable.
i love those lips!
are you sure you and ben don't want to keep going? cuz you make pretty babies. and i'm curious to see how different each additional baby would look. 🙂 glow is a good mix of all of you! 🙂 are you sure?? maybe just one more! haha!
She is absolutely perfect! And I think she looks a lot like True!
hugs from Brazil!
She is just so beautiful x
so precious! It is a thrill to watch your family grow. All your girls are so beautiful.
so cute!! Please write a post about your Hypnobirthing experience please! I am going to do it for this delivery, and would love your insight on your experience!!
Little Glow is so so precious. I LOVE her name! Congrats!
the birth happened so fast and now it all feels kind of surreal just thinking about it. i will write it down, but for some reason my heart just isn't exactly quite ready to. it was such an emotional time i think.
Glow is so cute! big hugs for you guys and a kiss for Glow!
Glow is so beautiful! As are the other three. xo, rv
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You have such Beautiful girls!!!!!! You are Blessed!!!!!!
very beautiful! do you think she looks like one of the girls more than the other?
She´s precious!!!!!
I love het soooo much to ! 🙂
What a beauty!!! Congratulations!!
I'm very happy for you and your family!
xo from Holland
So precious!
She is soooo adorable! Do you use the swaddeling-method of Harvey Karp? It looks like this. Does it really work? I really want to know, because I'm thinking about using it for my baby.
josi- i use the swaddling method they taught us at the hospital! maybe i should do a tutorial?
i looked up the harvey karp method and that is indeed how i swaddle my babies. so the hospital they were born at follows that method as well. i am sure you can find a plethora of you tube videos on that method of swaddling.
Thanks, Ruby! And does it really work? Do you have the feeling that your kids were more calm and relaxed while using this method?