Placenta Pops

ok...first of all, i can see how this is kinda gross but hold back that judgement until you hear the whole story bc then you'll think it is even grosser!! =)
i read about people who saved placentas for all sorts of reasons...the most fascinating was folks who don't eat meat bc of the fact that something must die in order to eat it...and that placental material is the only "meat" that isn't killed...soooooo, drumroll....they eat it!!! i found spaghetti recipes, cookie treats...even smoothies! (just kidding....about the smoothies)
i didn't even for a moment desire to eat what connected jack and esme to myself but i did want to do something special with the placenta...i mean, the alternative was just letting it go wherever all the other icky body type material goes...so why not save it for something?
josh and i decided to choose a tree and plant the placenta underneath it...sorta a sacajaweya-fish-under-the-corn idea...or was that poccahantis...anyway, you get my drift...
now, the gross part is yet to come...
when i came home from the hospital with jack and then with esme....i wasn't all about preserving the placenta. in fact, i left them in the back of the car for...o, 2 weeks each! eeewwwww.
they were quickly upon discovery transferred to the freezer...to make, shall we say, placenta pops! =)
we planted jack's tree today...a vitex chaste tree (look at a photo when full grown here... http://www.delange.org/ChasteTree/ChasteTree.htm)
for esme, we bought a pink dogwood which is actually a native tree and not a cross with a peach which i had been told.
i'm so excited to watch them grow....the trees and the kids!