Drew's Sunflowers

I'm obsessed with the $1 Target bins. Like, I have a problem. Anyone else? I know it's not just me.

Anyway, I picked up this little sunflower kit for Drew before Easter. I was really excited to let him do the planting in the tiny pot, then transfer outdoors once it grew to the recommended height. He carefully inserted the seeds into the pot and enjoyed watering it each day.

It's crazy how fast those seeds grew! Check out that speed! Wish I could afford some awesome time-lapse camera that I could have set up for the week...

Anyhoo, it grew to 3 inches meaning it was time to get evicted to the outdoors. We dug a hole, placed the extra, unused seeds in and then carefully transferred the already-growing sunflowers and their roots.

Drew was so proud of his plant and kept talking about it while we played outside that evening. I knew he would love to watch them grow throughout the spring and hopefully we'd get some real sunflowers! (Don't forget, I'm from Kansas so sunflowers have a special place in my heart!)

But less than 12 hours later tragedy struck.

...Or more like my green thumb failed me and I completely forgot to consider how much animals liked seeds.

This is what I found the next morning....

I noticed it as we walked to the car before school and quickly turned Drew's attention fearing he would want to, once again, see how his plant was doing. In the car I explained to him what happened and like a typical toddler, he didn't really care.{thankyoubabyjesus}

I, on the other hand, was pissed. How did I not remember that sunflower seeds were delicious and couldn't be resisted by our squirrels? I was honestly hoping to have a huge post this summer full of large, beautiful sunflower pictures. But here we are.... still barely spring and the project is ruined. Stupid squirrels.

You live and you learn, right?