Strawberry Fields

So yesterday at MOPS (moms of preschoolers) our mentor mom spoke about enjoying the season you are in. As a prop, she had a HUGE bowl of beautiful strawberries. Well when the boys and I got home that bowl of strawberries was stuck in my head. I then did what any other mother of toddlers would do, I called Jeff and asked him if he would like to meet us for dinner and then head out to a strawberry farm to pick some fresh berries.

The kids loved it! Cooper could not keep his little hands out of the bucket his daddy was "trying" to fill. Literally every berry Jeff put in the bucket Coop would eat - leaves and all. The shirt he was wearing is now permanently red from all the juice that was running off his chin. Good memories!

Max did such a good job. I told him to only pick the red ones and did just that. He did eat his fair share too, but he also shared with his little brother. Max would pick a berry off the plant, pull the leaves off, give it to Cooper, and say "Here brother, eat this!". It was so sweet. The whole time Max was picking he kept saying "This is fuuuuunnnn!". After we picked our buckets full I asked Max if he wanted to come back and pick again and he quickly replied "Uh-Hu" and when I asked how many he ate he said "Lots!". He was very impressed by my full bucket and said, "Mama has BIIIIIIGGGG strawberries!". He is starting to put lots of emphasis on certain words and big is always one of them.

It was so much fun. We are going to have to go back there when the blueberries, blackberries, peaches, and apples are ripe and make tons more memories this summer!