We're having a baby!

Our firstborn son will arrive into the world in about three weeks and his name is Higgs Boson! April Fool!

Gotcha. Hee hee hee. It's this particleular humor that gotcha again! Nyuk. Nyuk. Nyuk.

In reality, we had a fabulous Easter weekend visiting with our dear friends Jeff, Jill, Wendita, and Laura (yay!). Hi y'all!!!! Also, welcome to the world to Jill's new niece this weekend! 

Although our visits together are always far too short it's great to see everyone and to also spend time these last few days recovering from laryngitis (boo) and using assistive technology (yay) that allows me to type into the cell phone and have the computer speak all the words--too cool! I will never take speaking for granted again. Be well and eat lots of Vitamin C (if this helps because own evidence is not scientific)!

Say, speaking of this potent vitamin, it's been a week and the sweet tater roots are thriving inside their water baths! Hooray! Have only refilled once this week (today) and am very curious about where to find sweet taters with red roots since these (allegedly) have the most vitamins and the white roots have the least. I wonder why the grocery store farmers don't grow the higher vitamin plants? Are they more expensive? Does someone else own a patent? I don't know but am curious.

This sweet tater plant started as a shoot growing from a tater inside a plastic produce bag. This plant was a wee bit larger than the one below; plus, there were only about three tubers--now it looks like a tapeworm factory inside the glass! The leaves on both specimens extremely healthy!

This shoot is from the same plant and was only about 3 inches long a week ago!

It's been too cold to plant these, yet, but they are definitely ready; plus, I need to find a way to either build or buy a raised bed with the correct sandy soil (have been warned against using chicken poop--eeew--since there is too much nitrogen). Am also afraid our yard doesn't have enough sunlight since they prefer dry weather and full sun once established with at least a 12-inch deep bed. Also, I have read that sweet potato vines are unpredictable and take over the yard (dang tubers) and this concerns me. I'm sure they're pretty plants but don't want them to become a nuisance for the neighbors.

Am also starting to workout today with Power 90 (it's the beginner version of the P90X series and, believe me, it's not easy)! Thought I could go straight to P90 but no (it's been far too long...oh well.) My goal is to workout for a continuous 90 days. Let's see how things go on Day 2 tommorow.