Strawberry Picking At the Berry Patch Farm

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Sweet and succulent strawberries. Hands down the best strawberries I've ever tasted - even though they were pretty small. Their small size probably contributed to their intense sweet flavor. Nellie's checking out the picture here as I type, saying "bah-bah, bah-bah" (her word for everything food, bottle or beverage related.

I took the kids to pick strawberries at the Berry Patch Farm. This is about as much picking as B-Bee did. He was more interested in the tractors and pushing Nellie in the stroller. Nellie was content to sit in the stroller as long as I kept handing her berries to eat. Have mentioned that she loves food? If she's not eating it, she's feeding it to the dogs. Needless to say, my 2 little helpers weren't very much help. I may have had more fun enjoying the fruits of labor at home - rather than attempting to pick strawberries in the heat and chasing down my 3 y/o pushing my 1 y/o across the field. It wasn't so bad, but I hope B-Bee is more interested in picking next time we go (in August to pick rasberries).

If this were at the Willy Wonka's Factory, she would have turned into a strawberry. She's so serious, serious about strawberries.

A Not-So-Bad Day At the Z-O-O

Nellie has found a new hobby, tearing down B-Bee's coins & prizes. Sometimes she tries to eat them, sometimes she shares, most of the time she throws them on the floor - which of course upsets B-Bee when he finds them on the floor.

....but they're still buds..... until she spills his milk.



Get ready, Nellie, and put your shoes on. We're going to the Z-O-O! On the way to the zoo, the entire way to the zoo, B-Bee informed me that Z-O-O spells zoo. He's so smart, so I tried to get him to spell boo and moo... He got "moo" down, but it turned funny and went back to "zoo".



B-Bee wanted to see the elephants first. So we headed off to the Pachyderm building to watch the elephants have breakfast. These guys are always eating whenever we come see them. Suppose they need a continuous flow of hay and other elephant food to keep up with their metabolism.

Stinky as it may be, the pachyderm is my favorite because of the rhinos & hippos. This one was having his dental exam. There's something cute about these big, stinky, slightly pink creatures. I wonder if they get daily brushings.

The train was closed for repairs. The carousel just isn't the same. B-Bee freaked out about the animals and wouldn't ride on them. Instead we sat on the bench. Nellie wanted up and rode on an animal though. Both of them were fascinated by the lights, music & mirrors.

We never did find our mommy group. Just as well... we stopped for an early picnic lunch and Nellie decided that she'd had enough of the wagon. B-Bee got tired of listening and it was very hot. We quickly saw the camels, checked out the North Shore River play area - no water running that day - and headed home for naps. As you can see Nellie was a little crabby. She's teething a million teeth (just had 2 come pop through and is working another 6 or so up still). It wasn't our best day at the zoo, but it could have been a whole lot worse. I'm just thankful that they behaved and were pleasant for most of it.