The Sweet Taste of Summer

MMmmm tomatoes, fresh from the garden, we all love to eat them plain. Even Rowan, who lately won't touch anything that is actually healthy. Last week Eli got introduced to a fresh tomato and he is in love...





Actually obsessed might be a better word, maybe even addicted....

Eli now knows where the tomato plants are in the garden, and runs to them when we are not looking.... unfortunately he has not yet learned how to tell if a tomato is ripe

so he has picked many green tomatoes

of course the green ones aren't as tasty (or even as easy to eat) as the delicious red ones that give Eli such joy! He is truly in love when eating a tomato, but sometimes (ok all the time) Eli falls down, and when he falls down with a half eaten tomato in his hand, it's not very pretty, especially when he uses the hand holding the tomato to push himself back up, especially when he does this in a pile of fresh cut grass clippings, or a pile of tiny rocks....

then we are forsed to pry the half eaten tomato covered in grass and rocks out of his tiny hands...

and that makes for a very upset Eli......

hopefully he won't be forever scarred and grow up hating tomatoes.