Pickin' strawberries

Today we took a little field trip with some of Thomas' school friends and their parents (and siblings) and visited a local farm to pick strawberries.  It's something I've wanted to do for years, but have never managed to actually do.  We got really dirty, but the boys had a ball...and I enjoyed it too!  And even better, the strawberries are delicious!





The boys really enjoyed it and I took a ton of pictures.  Since I'm so behind on blogging and need to just get this one up, I'm not sure I'll do too much narrating!






Thomas and one of his best buds, Thomas!




And his other best bud from school, Henson. Though it was impossible to get all of them looking at the camera at once.  


Thomas & Thomas.  The other Thomas rode with us because his Mom had a ton of things to do, so I managed to wrangle three kids around the strawberry patch.  Whew!  :)  They all made it easy.  But I did feel a little crazy the times I had to say, "Thomas & Thomas, come over here!" 


Some of the beautiful berries amidst all of the ever-plenty Wadmalaw Island dirt!






Parker had to take a few thumb-sucking breaks...




I've decided that this little boy, Luke (younger brother of a little girl who is in Thomas' class), is Parker's "hair twin."


Isn't he a cutie?


I tried to discourage Parker from eating the dirty berries in the field, but he was dying to eat one.  So I let him indulge in a cleaner one we found:




This is Parker saying, "Good!"


And then he decided it was fun to yell into the bucket:


The camera focused on the wrong person, but cute anyway...




Meanwhile, Thomas was running around with his buddies.


We attempted to get a decent picture of most of the children together (Henson and his brother had already headed over to the picnic area at this point):

Yeah, that went well.  :)

Luke's Daddy's picture of the same moment...


Then it was time to head over for our picnic lunch:


Afterwards the kids realized they could feed turtles in the pond:


See one of the turtles...






I'm pretty sure farmers don't wear sandals, Crocs or flip-flops for a reason!








But look at those beautiful strawberries!




Okay, that was ridiculous how many pictures I posted (and it took me an hour!).  The reason I have yet to blog about the boys' birthday party is because I have too many pictures from which to choose.  And I've yet to blog about Parker turning two because it requires too much brain power.  But I promise, they are coming.  I've backdated a few new entries today and will point them out shortly once I finish doing all the ones I want to do!