Plant-o-mania and Bland Baby Food

I really need to get myself a garden soon. It's time again to plant stuff, and even though we've filled our little balcony to its full capacity with 6 tomato plants, 3 broccoli plants, 2 cucumber, 2 zucchini and 1 lettuce pot, I keep eying more vegetables each time I see them at a store. Don't strawberries fit just about anywhere. And some bell peppers would be nice, along with some melon, and...well, we just don't have the room, but I really, REALLY enjoy growing my own food. It tastes so much better. So, I realized today that wherever we choose to move to after school, it has to be somewhere where I can grow a garden. Here is what I have in mind:



But if I can't have a cool vegetable garden, I guess something like this would do:

Now, I have something interesting to say in regards to babies liking bland foods. I never really believed that to begin with. I figured, babies probably like bland stuff because that's what we give them. Even though Sophia hasn't been a great eater (yet), the stuff she HAS eaten has actually been the foods that I personally spiced up. But today she really surprised me. We went out to eat at a Mexican place called Chipotle. Sophia, sitting in a high chair, was really eager to 'try' some of our foods. I couldn't find anything good for her to chew on other than my delicious guacamole, so I gave her some of that. Turned out she liked it, and kept wanting more and more. She was actually eating quite a bit. And what was in this guacamole? I asked the employees (to make sure it had nothing funky in it). Ingredients: Avocado (what a surprise), lime juice, cilantro, onions and jalapenos. Yup. Though it wasn't very spicy, it definitely was NOT bland. And she loved it. So much for bland baby foods. Maybe it was just her antibiotic changing her eating habits all of a sudden. We took her in to the doctor again today, after her eyes really gooped up and were swollen last night. Turned out she got an ear infection after all. I'm glad we caught it so quickly.