Strawberries

I hadn't taken my kids to go strawberry picking, ever! They had picked raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries, but never strawberries, and they are the perfect height and have strong backs so we finally made it happen. It was somewhat impulsive in the afternoon after Charlie got home from school. (I wanted him to work, hah!) Anyway, we got there, the boys picked for a bit, Edwin ate and kept chasing down my bucket. It seemed like every couple of minutes Miles was updating me on the total of berries in his bucket and it definitely wasn't filling up very fast. "Mom. I have 5!" {two minutes later} "mom, I have 6! Can I eat one?" 

Disregard the binky dragging in the dirt...

 

 

 So then the big boys got bored of picking and just wanted to run up and down the rows and Edwin pooped up his diaper so we decided to call it quits with 3 pounds of strawberries and get home in time for dinner. They lasted about a day but we were able to make a jar of strawberry jam so that was exciting! Hopefully we'll be more productive next year!