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Meet Stephen. 

He delivered the veg/fruit boxes yesterday with a smile on his face and full of excitement about his "new clients".

The boxes were all full of these wonderful veggies and sweet, yummy strawberries. We ALL enhaled the green beans last night and still have enough for a meal later this week. And today at our picnic in the park, my boys gobbled up the strawberries. They both had looks on their faces like, "Mama, where did you get these?" They ate and ate and ate them until there was nothing but juice left in the container.

We have new potatoes, squash, broc., cucumbers, and lettuce still to enjoy. First reviews so far: money well spent.

Meet Alder's "girlfriends".

These sweet girls are neighborhood girls who are always playing at Sarah D's house (she is bottom right). Sarah D lives two houses down from us and we LOVE Sarah D. She is certainly like Alder's big sister and she has such sweet friends too. Alder clearly loves the attention and is carried around by them like he is a little prince. 

And finally, meet Alder's bestfriend.

I know Ally has made it onto the blog before, but she has never been formally introduced. She is undoubtedly Alder's best friend, favorite playmate, and his favorite "toy." She will entertain him for hours (really its more like minutes, but when I can get "mommy jobs" done around the house without Alder standing at my feet begging me to hold him-it feels like hours.) and the two of them will play and play in the front yard together. She has the patience of Job. After every meal Alder will say, "get down and let Ally in, eat food." So we let him down, he lets her in, she cleans up the floor. The other day I was out in the yard with Alder, Kingston, and Ally and I looked over and Alder had a stick in his mouth just like Ally did. Funniest thing. When it storms badly and thunders (which she is terrified of) Ally will disappear (after Jared and I don't pander to her crying) and we will find her snuggled up in front of the door to Alder's room. Ally B (we affectionately call her that) is 4 years old and was born just 4 houses up the road. Ally B is currently teaching Alder responsibility as it is his job to feed her each day. She really couldn't be a more perfect dog. She doesn't even shed. I often say that I am not a dog person, but just an Ally person. She is irreplaceable.