It feels like summer outside, which means swimming, playing outside, and STRAWBERRIES! I love all kinds of fruit, but I think berries are my favorite. My mom thinks that if I had it my way, I would just eat berries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. She's wrong, though, because she forgot about cookies. Anyway, this weekend, we went to a local farm to pick strawberries. Here I am pointing the way to the nice juicy ripe berries.
Here I am helping my dad pick the good ones.
Someone has to taste-test the strawberries to make sure they're ripe. Yummy!
Look how many strawberries we picked! And when I say "we", I really mean my mom and dad. What do I look like, a farm hand?
Still, being out in the sun and eating fresh-picked strawberries is an awful lot of work for a little kid like me. After I take a long nap, I'll look forward to warm strawberry bread, strawberry popsicles, strawberry compote on french toast, strawberry lemonade, strawberry ice-cream...
The weather was so nice today that I decided that I'd help out my mom and dad with some yard work. We planted roses and shrubs and some other stuff. In this picture, I'm moving around some mulch. I'm such a good helper. My mom even told me so.
Here's my dad planting a new shrub. It's almost taller than me, which is pretty amazing because I'm a tall kid.
The new plants need a lot of water. Can you believe my parents let me be in charge of the water sprayer?! I promise I won't spray anyone with water. Hee!
Hey! I didn't mean to spray myself with water! That did not go according to plan.
