It's a ............

Giant zucchini.
We started harvesting from our garden this week. Our biggest crop right now would be the zucchini and yellow squash. I checked on them one day and they weren't quite ready yet, two days later this guy appeared.









Ally liked snapping the green beans. She didn't really like eating them raw though.












We've also got some corn plants that I bought by accident. The old saying of my grandfather's, "knee high by the 4th of July" doesn't work around here. This picture was taken probably around the 11th of July and they are way more than knee high.











In other news, Ally got her big girl bed this week. She's pretty excited about sleeping in it, but here's how we found her the first morning.










And our final piece of news for the week, Karen had an ultrasound yesterday and we found out that we're having another girl. Ally's excited, I really don't think she wanted a brother. Over the past month she'd been talking a lot about having a little sister so she can put her in a basket. Ally seems to be getting her wish although, right now, she keeps referring to Baby Hoffman #2 as an alien, a scary baby monster, and an octopus.