I have been wanting to take the boys strawberry picking this year, but the season is becoming more brief as the rain keeps falling and rotting the berries. Besides being a bit wet and muddy, today it was a good day to go strawberry picking because it was cool instead of hot. We squished our way through the strawberry patch and began our picking, let me rephrase that...I began picking strawberries while Joshua picked weeds and Matthew ate strawberries. Eventually both boys got the hang of picking and we filled up our flat in no time at all. This year many more berries we soft and rotting so that made picking a bit trickier, especially with kids. After an hour we had 11 pounds of strawberries and two wet, muddy, strawberry stained, happy kids and one happy mom. Now to clean and freeze some strawberries, make a strawberry pie and enjoy the fruits of our labor!
Uh Joshua, we are here to pick strawberries, not weeds my dear!
Matthew found a good strawberry to pick.
Can I eat this one too mom?!?!
Joshua finally realized we were there to pick strawberries!
Matthew liked to help by dumping the rotten berries.
My little strawberry picking helpers.
All done picking, time to sample!
Yum!!
Matthew adding more juice to his already strawberry-stained face.
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