Your weekly challenge is to enjoy the rainbow of colors at an outdoor plant nursery. Let her touch/listen to the wind chimes on display, tour the orchid hot-house, and watch the koi in the water garden pond (the bright-colored fish swarm up to greet kids because they expect food). A baby carrier is perfect to navigate the tight corners.
In Berkeley, I like the East Bay Nursery for its rows and rows of colorful flowers and funny butterflies. Just watch out for the bees.
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Is your baby too old to be worn around in a baby carrier while you describe the difference between perennials and annuals? Toddlers and preschoolers are ready to “help” plant their own favorite veggies in the backyard. Not your style? Choose a different challenge.
we just happened to do this today! and had great fun until the drizzle turned into a full blown storm!
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I didn’t realize this was a challenge for the week, but we accomplished it as well. We started our first ever garden…so that entailed two trips to the local garden center. The baby just played with my keys, but my 3yo loved every minute of it. Wish us luck because we really don’t know what we’re doing!
Next on my list is housing my own hens. Though I’m not sure if hubby (or our beagle) would go for that. But, at $4.50 for a dozen organic eggs, it seems like a good deal to me. Must investigate further.
I love these kind of thing!
Anything that reminds me of spring or summer time makes me feel so good!! Nice blog!!
New fan on FB too!
I took my 15 month old to the nursery in our area the other day. Even he loved looking at all of the flowers. He was in the Ergo and I let him touch some of them. We picked out two ferns and hung them on porch. Perfect sunny morning activity.
I’ve been there several times with my baby-now-toddler. I have to admit though, this is one of those outings that is totally for me. She’s really not into it. The last time we went she had more fun going up and down the stairs than looking at the pretty flowers. We’ll keep going together until I have to pay admission for her, and then we’ll probably wait a few more years before we take her again. For now she’ll have to get her flower fix in our garden or on walks.
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[...] Play in another kind of nursery. Briefly. We bought some grassy shrubs, there wasn’t much butterfly ogling. We’ll have [...]