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When we first moved into our house, we decided we wanted some BIG trees! We splurged and bought 5 BIG BOX Ficus trees. Well, there was a terrible freeze a little more than a year ago. It was like the coldest it has been in like 50 years! Well it killed my ficus trees! I have to admit it still makes me depressed to think about my ficus trees. We replaced a couple of them with small trees (no not ficus') . Two of them we lopped the tree trunk off, and left the roots to see what would happen. Well now I have two ficus bushes. So for a few months I have been wondering how do I turn these bushes into trees??? I finally talked to a tree pro, and got the answer. So this morning I put Zachary's swimsuit on him, and we headed out back with the loppers. It was actually pretty fun. I don't do much yard work, as my husband loves it (no really he does!).
So as I finished up, I looked up at Zachary and saw him pull off his floaties. A few minutes later, he went and stood around the corner and acted like he was concentrating hard on something. OH, CRAP (really)! "Zachary are you going poop in your swimsuit?" He looked up at me with huge eyes. BUSTED! As I walked towards him, he decided to canon-ball into the pool (floatie-less). So of coarse I jumped in after him (fully dressed).
Leave it to Zachary to turn a situation where I was going to be mad at him, into Mom kissing and hugging him at the side of the pool. And as an added bonus for him, he got a bath after, which he loves! Genius I tell you. And a little Crazy!
P.S. I have retrieved the little floaters out of the pool, and will shock it tonight!
P.S.S. We will be enrolling in swim lessons soon!
6 comments:
Your posts crack me up! You just have a way with wording things! 2 things...#1 way to go on the bush/tree. I wouldn't have even realized it was the same plant! It looks great! #2 I can't believe Zach jumped back in the pool w/o the floaties. Too funny!
Holy Cow!! That story proves that their is never a dual moment as a Mom...So funny!!
I am with you I think it is pretty fun to chop trees or bushes. Last week I filled our whole trash can right after the garbage man came with bushes I had chopped off...not too smart because we didn't have anywhere to put our trash the whole week. Oh well, once I get started it's just hard to stop.
I saw your name on Brea's blog, so I clicked on it. That story was a riot! I would have hugged Caden too... after I killed him for jumping in!
Oh my gosh that is hilarious! And your tree looks very nice! Love it!
cool!
You did a great job making your bush into a tree. We have a few bushes as well. I definitely think Zach leans more to the genius side.
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