Blueberry Picking

Last week my friend Ashley and I took our kids to an organic blueberry farm. It was a beautiful sunny day and the kids enjoyed filling up their buckets with fresh warm blueberries! They encourage you to eat while you pick so I took care of the eating while the kids focused on picking. I think Kellan accidentally ate some unripe blueberries in the beginning before he realized which ones he was supposed to pick, and that kind of turned him off to eating them. Typically he loves blueberries but he enjoyed picking them more this time! The farm will also pay you to pick blueberries for them to sell at the farmer's market, so once the kids filled up the baskets to take home, Haley, Tate and Alex worked together to fill one bucket then split the profits! Ashley, Kellan and I preferred to sit in the shade under the tent and chat with the girl who was working while munching on some snacks. The big kids were quick workers, running from bush to bush working as a team to pick all the blueberries. They were cheap labor--the girl probably could have paid them half the rate and they still would have been just as excited! She didn't get how much $3 each meant to young kids :) - she was impressed that they were so eager to work so hard for such a small amount of money. The kids all talked about how much they couldn't wait to go back and do it again....now I just have to figure out what to make with all the blueberries I have left!

The Blueberry Pickers--Tate, Haley, Kellan, and Alex

My sweet girl hiding behind a blueberry bush

My adventurous boy crawling through the bushes

Tate is Alex (and Kellan's) new buddy-he is the same age as Alex and their dad works with Marlon. The 4 kids bonded quickly and really play well together!

The blueberry fields--Tate and Alex off and running

Unrelated to blueberry picking, here are a couple of pictures of Kellan playing UNDER his train table. He played under there for a good 20+ minutes so I snapped a few photos.