Learning Patience in the Garden

We have re-landscaped our yard and now that it is complete, Jack and I have been planting the garden. He is very interested in the plants, wants to know all their names and which ones we can eat ("when it get bigger"). He has been very patient with the strawberries ("it gonna get bigger, then it turn red, then we eat it") but Fozzie got to the first one on the very morning we planned to harvest! Luckily this weekend we were able to harvest a few from a hanging pot out of dog's reach. Jack helped me plant some "pumkins" (also known as Putneys, after the pumpkin protagonist in one of his books) and then went for a nap. When he woke up, we went outside and he asked: "Did the pumkins gwow up?" I told him 70 days at least.