So I got these free seeds and containers from TLL, they had alfafa (I had never heard of this plant prior to this), cabbage, wheatgrass, sunflower, broccoli (ha how is it gonna grow in this small container) and mustard seed.
In pretty transparent containers. I wished I had captured the different stages, on the first and second days, we did not notice anything. On the third day, the roots appeared, on the fourth, the shoots and leaves, by the fifth day, they were sprouting strongly. For the next week, they grew really rapidly and soon outgrew the containers and we had to remove the lids.
You were very into the "Frozen" movie now. I said you would have to water and sing to your plants everyday so they would grow to be tall and strong. You would request for the songs "Let it go", "for the first time in forever" and sang gladly while admiring the tiny plants..
See how big and beautiful they were. So it was a surprise when they suddenly faltered in the subsequent weeks, somehow, they stopped thriving, withered up and died... You were very affected by it. I said we got to throw the dead plants away soon but you could not bear to, especially your sunflower plants. You wept and I explained the ants would come. To pacify the sobbing you, I agreed you could keep the plants so long you killed the ants.
At night, you wept again and told papa you did not want to kill the ants, you did not like to get them onto your hands, they would crawl all over you. Papa placated you and said tong could kill them instead. I thought that would comfort you but you lamented about your dying plants again when we went to bed, I was tired and grumpy so I sent you to papa. Papa came back and told me how you two came up with a plan of drawing a checklist to be pasted on the door so you would remember to sing and water the plants everyday.
It suddenly dawned on me that perhaps you were guilty for letting the plants die on you. I felt a tinge of guilt, maybe I had deposited that insidious idea in you because I explained they died coz you did not water and sing to them everyday. I asked you gently if you felt sorry that you neglected the plants, that opened the floodgates, you started crying...I explained not all plants thrived well, it could be the weather, it could be because we are not good at growing them...I said we could keep trying, it was alright to fail, but we would always keep trying...I assured you the plants would be in heaven with Daddy God...that we would bury the dead plants in the field outside Linear so we could always walk past them...
You seemed comforted and settled to sleep...hmmm...after awhile you said you would miss them, sigh, it was so hard to find a closure for this. I declared you could keep the dead plants in the house...I would see how we could get rid of them someday...
Well, goodbye our very first plants. It was fun while it lasted. Papa and I discussed about how sensitive you were, you had a very acute sense of self. Bei kor po was worried that you would be dejected when you encountered rejection in school, grand uncle brian was sure that you would outgrow it and be fine...we would see how the two of you eventually grew up to be...
Snippets of playing at home... Auntie Lydia gave us Lego sets...and we had lotsa fun
The funny you were harping like a little bird beside me now, asking why the images were on the computer. I said I wanted to preserve the memories for you so you could know how you were when you were young. Now you were clamoring to know what I typed, "tell me what it says...tell me what it says, tell me what it says..." ha...you had scampered away to play with your beloved 4th kor por now...
Thank you, Lord, for blessing me with two bundles of joy.
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