We Have Lift Off

Well, I've actually managed to make a couple of things sprout in my garden. I've noticed the last couple of days that there are some cucumber and corn plants popping out of the ground. Take a look...

Cucumber

Corn (I think. This better not be a weed!)

I've even got a little tomato starting to grow on one of my tomato plants.

This makes me feel a whole lot better about the garden. Now I don't feel like I'm just watering a bunch of dirt. Maybe I can start my own farmer's market, hah!

Today I planted seeds for a watermelon and a cantaloupe plant. I think it's kind of late in the year to plant these, but what the hell. They cost me a dollar.

The Haircut

I have been cutting Colton's hair since he was about 4 months old. I know this seems early for most kids, but he was born with a full head of hair and none of it fell out. So at 4 months, I had daddy bring him in to my work to get his first hair cut. Every time I cut it, Brandon tells me just to shave it. I laugh this off and give him the same cut that he always gets.

On fathers day, Brandon kept saying that he was going to cut his hair. I told him that was fine, just not to go too short. Well this went on for some time until I made the joke that he was too chicken to do it. So while I laid down for a few minutes, Brandon took Colton into the living room. Now, I had told him what to do. A 1 (1/8") on the sides and a 4 (1/2") on top. This would take it shorter than I normally do, but it would still leave him some hair.

Suddenly I hear the clippers running in the living room. I didn't worry too much about it at this point, at least until I here Brandon say "go show mommy what daddy did". I sit up as Colton walks in the room with a big smile on his face to show me what daddy had done. I see that Brandon had shaved his head with a 1 all over!

My son is now bald just like his daddy! Oh well, it is only hair and it will grow back, but I think I will stick to cutting Colton's hair from now on.

I'm a farmer! (wannabe)

I thought I'd try my luck with gardening. I'm not expecting much, though because I can barely keep our aloe vera plant alive.

Right now, I've just got tomatoes, cucumbers and corn planted. Later, I might add a couple of jalepeno plants and see how that goes.

I wasn't even sure how to plant the corn, really. I just ended up digging a couple of little trenches and spreading a bunch of corn seeds in them and burying them. I'm sure I did it wrong, but it'll be interesting to see what happens with them.

I didn't even really know how to plant the tomato starter plants. I had to call my mother-in-law to ask her if I was supposed to break up the root ball or not. So yeah, I'm pretty much a professional gardener.

Jammin' Out

Here's Colton jamming out to some tunes on the Ipod.

His favorite singer is Johnny Cash. I used to sing (as best I could, anyway) Johnny Cash songs to him when he was just a little baby. For some reason, it would calm him down when it was time for him to go to sleep at night.

It must have been that he just liked his Dad's singing. :) For whatever reason though, he still gets all excited when he hears a Johnny Cash song. His favorite songs are I walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues and A Boy Named Sue.

Unfortunately, this is the closest thing to lullabies that he ever heard from me. Come on, a song about a guy shooting a man in Reno and going to prison is the perfect children's song. And what about a guy naming his son Sue, and then his son finding him later on in life and beating the crap out of him. How is that not a children's song?

To me, this is better than rocking a baby to sleep in the tree tops and when the wind blows his cradle falls. Now why you would rock a baby to sleep and put him in the top of a tree is beyond me. Sounds to me like that poor kid is going to need years of therapy after that.

I guess that's why I will never win the father of the year award.