Chalking up another first, I took the kids to the berry picking patch this morning. Blackberries are currently in season here so we quickly set to work looking for truly ripe berries. It seems the die hard pickers had started at 7am (we arrived around 10am), so we were warned the pickins' were slim. Boy did that turn out to be true, but even though we walked away with only $1.06 worth of berries this morning, we had a great time trying something new. Claire took her job very seriously and worked hard to find berries. Molly, after a bad start (per her usual personality) ended up enjoying the event especially once she realized she could pick them and eat them on the spot. Molly understood the concept of picking "black" blackberries (the ripe ones) versus the red ones, whereas Lily just couldn't get it down. Lily was desperate to pick something and put it in her bucket, but she never located even one black blackberry - she kept going for the red ones and hearing "don't pick that one, Lily!" from me.
Here's Claire finding our one "patch" of ripe berries ...
... and here's Lily looking ornery as I'm yelling, "no, don't pick the red ones!" ...
... and here are all the girls looking for ripe berries ...
... and here's where Molly and Lily let the picking devolve into a "digging" game (which, in their parlance, is 'dig dig dig', always said three times in a row) ...
... and here's my favorite shot of Claire very conscientiously looking for berries while Molly and Lily have some other dirt and bucket game going on in the background.
We had a great lunch together after the berry picking so a very satisfying morning for all of us.
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