Despite Max saying for hours before we went that we were going apple picking, we indeed donned our old too-small clothes and went strawberry picking up in Carlsbad again this year. It was very fun, nice and muddy and full of delicious strawberries.
Last year Lia spent her time sucking on strawberries in the baby bjorn, happy as a clam. This year she was all over the place, running in the mud and eating as many strawberries as she could fit in her mouth, hands, arms, pockets, shirt, etc. The girl was wild about those berries! She probably ate around 50 of her own while we were there (which help us off-set the price of the two styrofoam buckets we filled in about 5 minutes) and she didn't really discriminate against the unripe green ones either.
Max had a great time picking and filling his bucket. But he didn't try a single one. He didn't even lick one. Days later, after the strawberries had been used for waffles, jam and strawberry shortcake he decided he wanted to try one only to be told that they had been eaten. Tears ensued and a trip to the grocery store later and he finally took a mouse-sized nibble out of one. And liked it! Go Max!
We had a great time picking strawberries this year. We even got to see lots of mutant berries (my personal favorites). We got nice and messy and came home and took nice long naps. Perfection!
3 comments:
what a fun family activity...and way to let them just have at it!
you took some great photos! my girls did this 2 years ago and jessica was so sad last year when we missed the time period to go...max cracks me up that he wouldn't even try one!!
Thanks for rubbing it in, you guys have strawberries while we're still getting snow! This is Cody by the way, your kids are so cute!
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