Wordless Wednesday – Picking a winner
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Another 6 pound strawberry adventure
Today it was beautiful so we opted to head out and get more strawberries and meet up with friends. Believe it or not, hardly any strawberries remain from the 6 1/2 pounds picked last Sunday. The boys did an amazing job gobbling them up. JL and NHL have had them everyday in their lunch, JL found a yummy recipe for Stawnana bread (see photo below), and we made some jam.
This is the strawnana bread that JSL actually asked for by saying "Dada Yum!"
The containers of jam that we made quickly on Thursday evening. Thanks to everyone for all of the recipes and suggestions.
These are a few photos from today. Be sure to hover over the photos to see the captions.
The fields were amazing today. The berries were huge, red and everywhere. JL and I were amazed with the number of people there today and all of the strawberries being picked. JL did most of the picking today and finished in less than 40 minutes!
Please note that NHL picked this shirt out at the store!
NHL was allowed to have one strawberry out in the field.
NHL was not as into picking today. I think it was too close to going last week, plus he had a friend that he wanted to play with. The fields and their flowers were more interesting today. Here is one he picked for me.
We had a great time out in the gorgeous weather picking another six pounds of strawberries. Tomorrow thanks to rain, JL plans on making more strawnana bread, possibly making more jam, and figuring out other things to do with the berries. I on the other hand will be busy doing laundry that was never touched all week.
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6 1/2 pounds of strawberry picking fun
Last year JL wanted to go strawberry picking, but it just did not work out with an infant less than a month old. This year he was quite persistent and gathered information about local pick your own patches. We finally narrowed it down to a place not too far away. On Father’s Day after having breakfast with my dad (mom was at work) we went to pick strawberries. NHL was beyond excited and could not wait to get there. Here are some photos from our time picking about 6 1/2 pounds of the yummy red goodness!
*** Be sure to hover over the photos to see additional captions. Warning that this is photo heavy. Since my family does read this I wanted to share lots of the photos with them as well.
First JL took NHL out into the field while I stayed trying to rock JSL in the stroller (this never did work).
After a little while NHL and JL came back to get more containers for strawberries. Plus they wanted to show me all that they had collected.
At this point the little guy made it crystal clear that he was not about to stay in his stroller. JL took him and all of the boys went back out to get more strawberries. Apparently at one point JSL got a hold of a strawberry from the container when Daddy was not looking and squished it. He was then given a sample to taste and LOVED it!
Eventually all of the boys wandered back to show me more strawberries and to let me head out into the field. Believe it or not I believe this was the first time I had ever gone strawberry picking. Poor JSL was really tired from lack of a nap – thus the reason his binky was in (that and teething).
After a while we had four good sized containers of strawberries. Both of the boys were tired from the heat and humidity so we went to pay and head home.
So if you made it through all of these photos you can see we had a great time. So much so that one of us never made it very far before falling asleep.
Depending on the weather we may go again this coming weekend. So I ask those of you reading this – any suggestions on things to make with strawberries?
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Majorly Missing Moe’s Tasty Tomatoes
After spending the morning strawberry picking (photos to come later) we decided to head out to dinner. Kids eat free on Sunday at Moe’s so we went there for a quick meal before tub time.
When you walk into a Moe’s they greet you with "Welcome to Moe’s" across the restaurant and then you get on line to order your food. Today we quickly noticed a paper posted at the counter. It certainly is a sign of the times given the constant food contamination problems plaguing us these days. As we all know the latest victim is the friendly tomato, a summer time favorite and especially important part of Mexican food. Moe’s decided to make customers laugh at the current situation with the following poster.
We certainly missed the tomatoes in our food, but are happy not to have to worry about the consequences of eating them. The boys loved their food. This is the first time JSL was awake for a visit to Moe’s and he loved his meal.
As always JL and I were amused by the fun artwork at Moe’s. This is one of our favorites . . . be sure to read all the way around it.
Hopefully next time when we head in and hear them say "Welcome to Moe’s" we will not be greeted with the tomato sign. Moe’s just is not the same without the tasty red summer goodness.
After dinner we went to a local ice cream place for JL to have his free Father’s Day scoop. It was a fun day . . . now we just need to figure out what to do with six and a half pounds of strawberries!
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Baked Beans + Baby = Bath
So what happens to a sweet smelling one year old boy when he is given baked beans to eat?
A HUGE mess is created!
Lucky for us most of the mess was on JSL’s face and hands, the rest was on his bib and tray. Thank goodness he did not throw this part of dinner because it would have been very bad.
As mentioned baked beans was one of the items given to JSL for dinner last night. He also had a veggie dog (mainly pitched onto the floor and down the hall), corn off the cob and some crackers. He loved the baked beans and gobbled them up.
When it was time to take my camera out to capture the amazing baked bean display painted all over his face I received this reaction:
I guess he was a little shy. That or he wanted to make sure he got some baked beans on his eye lids too. Apparently that is the rage in the two and under crowd!
As JL and I were trying to figure out how to tackle the kiddo into the tub he just sat there smiling and giggling at us. He certainly had no clue what a frightening task this was for all involved.
Although his face, arms and hands were coated in the bean sauce, his hair was not involved THIS time. Thank goodness since it is getting a little long now. Mommy just can not make herself cut the super soft baby hair just yet. It is so nice and just starting to curl like so:
As we continued to draft our clean up plan JSL decided he wanted something. First he thought about it:
Finally he asked for a "crackah" and some "wah wah" to go with it.
While JL was off getting the bath ready I decided to feed the boys some chocolate pudding that NHL made. This was the first time JSL had pudding and he really seemed to enjoy it (seriously he did – this photo does not show him growling for more).
The layers of grime were starting to get crusty so it was since to get the boy into the tub. Here is a view of a clean part of the child.
Not everyone at the table was wearing their meal, well at least not most of it. NHL was definitely much cleaner than his little brother.
This photo almost made me cry – my baby is all grown up and going to kindergarten in the fall.
Finally the tub was ready for the little monkey, so one last photo of the mess before it was time to get all of the food off.
For some reason it looked a lot worse once he was sitting in the tub about to get cleaned. Thank goodness I only had the little guy in a onesie for dinner – it made stripping him a lot easier.
Here is one last photo of the little guy half clean:
The good news is he is still clean tonight and sleeping (for now at least thanks to major teething). The bad news – he loves baked beans and we will likely have a repeat performance eventually.
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