southern comfort

on friday we went up to a strawberry patch called southern comfort. it's super cute and a lot of fun. we stayed way longer than i had planned to, but we were all having such a good time and the kids were all playing nicely, so i ditched my plan.

this lady sat happily in her seat... for about 5 minutes.

we played for awhile and then it was time to pick some berries! my girls are strawberry maniacs!

after about 5 minutes of picking, notice how many are in our basket. :)

diligent little farm workers.

i picked a few, but it was kind of hard with laney attached to me.

so beautiful! love, love, love this time of year!

we finally got down to business!

mostly mommy got down to business, cause addie was still on the pick one, eat one plan, but either way, we picked our 2 lbs and called it good.

frankie got disgruntled over something and just a mommy hug (because delaney was attached to me) just wouldn't do. when alecia offered to pick her up, frankie bolted. it's so nice to have friends that we all, kids and adults alike, love. :)

she's kind of a messy eater.

for awhile frankie had been running up and down the rows of strawberries and for some reason she had ditched her shoes all the way at the end of one of the rows. when i went to take her to retrieve them, she got all scared and was pointing to this little grey bird. she wouldn't fly, she just squawked at us and flapped her wings, very territorial. 

when i finally picked frankie up (cause she was not walking by that bird), we saw why. she had made a little nest and laid her eggs right there among the strawberries. kinda cute. :)

after playing and lunch, we ventured over to the animals. i didn't last long though because miss d decided she was famished, so i got to go stand up and nurse her. oh yes, no sitting for this one. stand up or lay down and nothing in between.

so. fun.

the kids were soooo dirty. they've all had a runny nose and addie likes to "wipe it herself," which usually entails rubbing some of it on the side of her face. not on purpose, just because that's a 3-year-old wipe job. so then when she plays outside, the dirt sticks to the sticky parts. that's a mixture of one part dirt, one part strawberries, and one part kid.

as we were leaving, frankie decided she wanted to try out the bikes, but she doesn't have the hang of it yet.

and that was our super fun day at the strawberry farm.