Get your hands dirty

For her next trick, Abby's decided to grow her very own holiday flowers. We started with a paperwhite kit from The Home Depot, and since it was too cold to do our messy project inside, I let her play with dirt in the kitchen. Not sure why I thought sitting her down with a box of dirt, a flower pot and a scooping spoon was going to be contained by the garbage bag I put under her, but it was fun nonetheless.

Abby had a great time deciding where her four bulbs would go in the pot. I showed her the picture of what the plant would look like once the flowers bloomed, and told her there were flowers inside of the bulbs that could only come out if we put them in dirt and watered them. Once she finished planting and patting down the dirt, she picked out a special spot in front of the kitchen window where her flowers will live and she can check on them daily.

I'm not quite sure she understands the whole concept of what we're doing, since every time she walks past the pot of dirt, she points and says, "Oh, look how pretty!" If she's that impressed with a plastic pot, I can't wait to see her face when she sees the flowers in a few weeks.