Tiny = So Cute!

You know how women typically adore things in miniature? Little shoes, little clothes, even travel sizes. Little mini things are always adorable and cute, right? I have long suspected this is because of the female innate connection to children, especially babies.

Anyway, this same principle applies to my love of gardening. Finding the little fruits when they first come out is so exciting! They're so little, but they're there, growing and developing and on their way to giving you some yumminess.

This season we're growing watermelon in our garden for the first time. The plants have become enormous willowy vine arms taking over the entire plot and just the other day I discovered our first baby watermelon fruit. It's the size of a raisin and it's SO CUTE! It has all the miniature striations of the grown up watermelon. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can keep this garden growing and thriving all the way to edible "fruition."

I took out all the kids the other evening to show them our adorable baby watermelons and we all oohed and ahhed at miniature fruit's captivating charms.

In other news, my kids are growing too! I don't do much scrapbooking (and the kind I do do is sill old school with real paper. . .though I do think I finally tracked down a copy of photoshop for Mac at a reasonable price. . .so maybe soon I'll be digi in it up) In the mean time, here's a pic of the page I had to do for The Barons's preschool teacher's memory book. I totally enjoyed this little project.