Tuesday, June 24, 2008
 We had a glorious day today. The humidity was down, the sky was clear and the temperatures were perfect. I suggested we go strawberry picking and Mark kindly offered to work from home and watch the twins for me. I wasn't about to pass that offer up and loaded the kids into the car as quickly as possible. Caleb clearly had no recollection of picking strawberries last year (he was only one) and he had lots of questions for us as we drove to the strawberry fields. He was mostly curious about what it smelled like there and we kept telling him it smelled like grass and strawberries and plants. It didn't take long for Caleb to catch on picking and eating the strawberries and I only had to tell him to stop taking my strawberries out of my basket a few [million] times. About twenty minutes after we started picking, Caleb matter-of-factly stated, "It smells like Mac-n-Cheese." I didn't smell the Mac-n-Cheese so much but next time your two-year old asks what strawberry picking smells like, now you know.
Hunter was very picky about which berries made it into his basket and any berry that did make it into his basket was deemed a very special "heaven berry." Hunter smelled every berry he picked and made sure it didn't smell sour. Then he hand inspected each one to make sure it was dark red and that none of them were squishy, moldy, or holey. Noah on the other hand, didn't pick any berry that didn't go straight into his mouth and Denver quit picking berries as soon as he had filled his pint carton for Grandma Gribble.
When all was said and done we managed to pick 18 pounds of strawberries and have already converted most of them into jam, pie and pudding. Next month is blueberry season and I'm pretty sure the twins are gonna be in heaven themselves--they sure do love blueberries. And so do I, especially considering we have a prize-winning recipe that uses blueberries. Oh, I can hardly wait!
posted by Shana # 11:19 PM 
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