Veggies

We finally got to pick some corn! We planted some silver queen corn, a variety that my grandfather grows that is quite tasty, and today we shucked a small batch of it - enough to fill a gallon plastic bag. It's not as big as granddaddy's and some of the ears are going to go out for the birds because they don't look good, but the one's that are good look really tasty! I'm excited.

We also picked our first watermelon. It's about the size of a basketball and sounds juicy inside! Our pumpkins are going crazy in our garden. The seed packet said that pumpkins need six feet of space on all sides, but I'm convinced it needs twice that. It grew from one side of the garden to the other, all the way down the potato hills, through the corn, over the fence and is starting to reach it's tendrils into our neightbors yard. We have two pumpkins that are already starting to turn orange and others that are still green. There is a giant one growing in the corn that has yet to turn orange...it'll be really big! There are two growing on the fence so Brandon is having to make slings for them so they don't break the plant. I think we'll have some awesome jack-o-lanterns and hopefully one or two for making pumpkin pie or pumpkin bread.

Oh! And I'm going to make zuchini bread today! Mmm...tasty!

We recently got a call from Colby's nutritionist and his phe level was a .8, which is REALLY low. I was nervous about this test because he'd been getting about 300mg of phe for the 3 days before (300 is the top level of what he'd previously been allowed to have) so now we can step it up to 350! This means he might be able to eat some higher phe foods!