another random entry

Manny and I are growing food!   We've planted two different types of tomatoes, green and yellow/orange/red/surprise bell peppers, sweet banana peppers, green onion, cilantro (supposed to be a picky plant so we'll see), and there are chives and mint growing wild too.  We also happen to have a pear tree right next to our house.

I'm curious about growing blueberries, blackberries, or raspberries too...  Maybe someday (soon?)!  There's another little flat plot to the side of our house.

Oh and the front yard (sloped part) looks pretty nice with the exception of random unwanted little plants poking out here and there.  I wonder if I could get some morning glories growing up the railing to the stairs and/or around the mailbox... or maybe they only climb thinner type things like fancy little fences or trellises.  Hmm...

In other news, Marc is five months old (as of May 5).  His babbling is so cute.  He says things like (and I quote), "Oo ger rawr ray ber."  He wore shoes for the first time recently.  He rolls over easily from back to front now.  He's able to stay on his tummy longer during tummy time and has progressed with pushing himself up on his arms and his pseudo-crawling.  Today he ate squash (last of the Giant Eagle stage 1 veggies) and next will be bananas.

Pitt people (or anyone who has eaten at Einstein's): have you ever had the Tasty Turkey sandwich?  Bagel, cream cheese, turkey, cucumber, possibly other veggies/things but I don't remember...  Anyhoo, that was my favorite bagelwich there.  I had a craving for this particular sandwich and it inspired me to get bagels at Costco, turkey, light veggie cream cheese (from Bruegger's), and a cucumber at Giant Eagle.  I added a little garlic powder and freshly ground pepper and mmm.  Will be eating a few of these this week! :D  Manny likes them too!

There's a bunch of these herb-like plants growing wild around our garden plot...  Their leaves are slightly fuzzy and sort of spade shaped.  Not anything that I recognize so the next time I'm at the library I'll check out a book on herbs and look it up (because Google didn't help that much).

Tomorrow will be my first Mother's Day.  Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.