My First Bouquet From Leah

One of the reasons that we bought our current house was because of its huge and completely fenced in back yard...perfect for rambunctious toddlers and dogs. It is also beautifully landscaped with plants that flower at different times all throughout the summer. I loved this aspect because I have always wanted some landscaping but would have no clue where to begin.

Anyway, one of the flowering plants is a huge rose bush that begins blooming late May. Leah noticed it the other day and was instantly enthralled. She picked a tightly closed bud from a branch close to the ground and handed it to me exclaiming "this is for you, mommy!"

She may as well have handed me a check for a million dollars! I gasped and said "Oh, for me? It is SO pretty! Thank you SO MUCH for bringing me this beautiful flower. Let's go put it in water right now so it will stay pretty!"

After that, she went back outside and then came back in and out a few times. When I went back outside to see what she was doing, this is what I found:

If you look closely you can see that in her right hand she is holding a freshly plucked rosebud, in her left hand are her "little scissors" which she dug out of her playdoh canister, and she is standing on her little step stool that she uses mostly for mischief (not in the bathroom to brush her teeth, as I had planned when I picked it up at a garage sale).

I have no idea how she managed to cut the stems with plastic scissors designed to cut soft, mushy playdoh, but manage she did!

After about a half hour had passed, we had filled up not only this little vase but also a bucket from Leah's sandbox and Rusty's waterdish. (Poor Rusty!)

All along I've been saying that Leah will grow up to be a veterinarian because she loves animals so much.

I don't know...maybe I've got a budding florist on my hands? ( I know....that was a terrible, shameful pun!)