We recently moved to a new city due to my husbands work. Here we were finally able to afford renting a house. The house is quite small and it’s a bit old but it is enough for the three of us and the best part is that we finally have a garden.

Two weeks ago one of our neighbors came to us and said that our trees are too tall and they were affecting their garden. The trees are only two meters high and are one meter away from their property, but that’s another story :). To avoid any problems with our new neighbors my husband decided to just trim the trees last weekend.

Tutu loves helping daddy with all the gardening tasks and she was very interested in what daddy was doing. When the trees were ready they collected the branches and the small pieces of trunk and put them on a side and we all forgot about them until wednesday. Wednesday was sunny and, Tutu and I decided to spend some time just playing in our garden. When we were playing I saw the small pieces of trunk and it came to my mind that it was a great opportunity to talk about the parts of the tree and I could show her how the trunk looks inside.
I took the pieces of trunk and the branches and we sat down and learned all the names (in spanish). Then I wanted to show her how the trunk looked inside and I realized that it was really easy to get the bark off the trunk. When I started doing it she started: “mama tutu tutu”, meaning she wanted to do it. So I just peel a little part of the bark t...