First Harvest and a Good Night's Sleep

Yesterday was a good day at the Bowman garden. Jack helped me to harvest all these vegetables! He has been a good helper out in the garden. He will pick weeds (I just have to keep an eye on the things that he thinks are weeds!) He also got a little excited when we picked the red tomatoes. He then started handing me green tomatoes as well. And I was pleasantly surprised when at dinner he ate his whole serving of squash and zucchini that we had sauteed. I kept reminding him that he helped them grow and that he picked them from the garden. That seemed to make all the difference! We even got one small sugar snap pea and Jack had half of it! Hopefully taking some responsibility in the garden will make him be a bit more adventurous in his table habits. I wonder if that would work with Tommy for his eating squash, zucchini, and tomatoes! Hopefully soon we'll have some cucumbers, peppers, jalapenos and others to go with our harvest!

On another note...Caroline slept all the way through the night last night! There wasn't a peep out of her. Before last week, she was still getting up for a 3am feed. After I taught my week long class at NKU, I knew that feed had to go. I was getting up at 3 to feed her and then at 5:30 to get ready for the day. I had an awful hard time actually getting back to sleep after feeding her. Starting the day at 3 and going all day was just not going to happen in August. So last week began the process of breaking that feed. The first couple of nights were really rough. I let her cry (and Tommy was happy to enjoy the guest bed in the basement and not hear anything!). Jack didn't wake up in his room next door either. Then she started waking, fussing a few minutes, and going back to sleep. Her first feed would then begin at 6am. That will work out great for August. I will be able to feed her once before school. But last night, I rolled out of bed for my 3am pumping (building a freezer supply) and didn't hear anything from anyone. Then at 6:30, I heard Tommy getting ready. He assumed I had fed Caroline already but was surprised when I said I hadn't. I was bad...I woke her up to feed her. I know, I should let a sleeping baby sleep, but there is something nice about having her on a good feeding schedule. It just helps out with our day and keeping a 2 year old happy as well. So I fed her and she went right back to sleep! Yay for Caroline!