A few weeks ago, Adam found a sunflower seed and asked me if he could plant it. So we carefully planted it in a plastic cup and set it next to a window inside the house. He religiously watered it day after day until finally its green little head popped up last week. He was so excited that HE could actually make something grow! He was like a proud new father.
Yesterday afternoon he told me that he had planted it outside "All. By. Myself." I was a little leery that it had been properly planted but then soon forgot about it. When I went outside this morning to go running, I found the little sprout, laying on its side looking, well, quite sad. Next to it lay a post-hole digger. He couldn't find a small shovel to dig the hole so he used the next best thing. He has also made a little rock sign that he put next to it, just in case we forget that it's a sunflower.
It's very likely the rock sign will soon become this little sunflower's headstone.
