Squash

At the Agape House, where Carter takes piano and Carter takes a music class, they have a community garden. Upon leaving today, sweet Grace gave a squash to each of the kids. Cannon kept asking what we do with the squash. Unsatisfied with my answers which were various ways of saying, "We eat them," he insisted that we would plant them.

"But they have already been planted. They sprung up from seeds, received water and sunshine, flowered, grew, were picked, and are now ready to eat."

"Mom, I want to take it apart.".

" We can cook it for lunch tomorrow," I suggested.

"Mom, I'm going to need a kid knife when we get home."

So we got home, and I gave up on having him see my point of the complete life cycle of food and gave him a plastic kid knife.

He chopped it every which way possible.

He separated out the seeds and carefully put them on a napkin.

"Mom, look we can plant these and water them!"




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