Strawberry Field Fun

When we went to bed last night, I was not so sure about going to the Strawberry Farm this morning. I recently had an accident with my foot and made it worst when I dropped a box of books on it yesterday that I was not sure how well I can walk. However, when I woke up in the morning, I was feeling better, so I made breakfast for us and got DD ready for our trip.

Before leaving the house, I saw that we have little sprouts from the seeds DD planted on Earth day. DD was pretty excited.

A better look at our little sprouts. Yay!

After a late breakfast, we were on our way to the Strawberry Farm. Look at how unhappy these people are. LOL!

I was trying to get DD excited about picking and eating all the strawberries, and she was not at all interested.

Luckily, the food (organic fruits and vetgetables freshly picked from the farm) came and all was good after that. DD got to try some celery, which she thought was yummy.

And then we tried to snap peas and they were delicious. Actually, we like them so much that we ended up buying some at the vegetable stand before leaving the farm.

This was DD's face after she tried the next vegetable. ROFL! Can you guess what it was?

Green Onions! ROFL!

We tried green beans next. She ate several of them (so we brought some at the vetgetable stand too).

She could not get enough of the green beans.

The next thing up was carrots. They were soooo good. We LOVE the carrots.

Yum. Yum.

Enjoying her carrot and wondering what's coming next.

Then we saw strawberries! Onions are grown between the 2 rows of strawberries because it is an organic farm, so onions are grown to prevent pests from eating the strawberries.

DD was getting pretty excited upon seeing the strawberries from our wagon.

From our wagon, we walked about 100 feet to pick strawberries.

DH tried to show DD how to pick strawberries properly.

DD had a hard time trying to break the strawberry stem off without pulling out the etire plant. DH decided to pick her strawberries for her, and DD was happy with her daddy's help.

DD waiting for her daddy to fill up her container.

She could not wait for her container to be filled to the top.

After the container was filled to the top, DD was happy and she was ready to try some strawberries.

She loved eating the strawberries.

She could not get enough.

I thought this was a pretty good indication that she was having a great time.
After we were done filling our containers and our tummies with strawberries, we walked back to the wagon to get back. Shortly after this photo was taken, DD fell and spilled about 1/3 of her strawberries. She was in such a good mood from eating all of the strawberries, she picked herself right up without any tears.

DH was a huge help today. He even cleaned up DD when we got back onto the wagon.

After DH cleaned up DD, she said to us, " I had FUN." She then screamed with happiness. It was adorable!

She wanted to make sure we understood how much fun she had, so she told us, "Fun today. I am Happy!" It was too cute!

She refused to let go of her strawberries the entire way home. She did ended up eating the entire container of strawberries after we got home.

We had such a wonderful time at the strawberry farm. We are very lucky to be able to afford this sort of thing ^_^.

Robot tote bags for Teacher Appreciate Day

May 5 is Teacher Appreciation Day. This is the first year that DD is in preschool and actually has teachers. DD loves school and adores her teachers, so I thought I would make some tote bags for her teachers as a gesture of my (and DD's) appreciation. I am hoping that these tote bags will be something they could use for school and I sure hope they like the robots I put on them too ;).

Playdate at the park

We went to the park for a playdate today. DD had a lot of fun running around.

Someone brought their dog to the park, and it was love at first sight for DD. She spent a lot of time playing with the dog.

After she was done playing with the dog, DD spent some time killing ants (not on purpose). She was catching them, but she did not understand that when she picks them up with her little fingers, she kills them. *sigh*

She also had a lot of fun catching lady bugs. In this photo, she was holding a lady bug.

DD also kept her lady bag in a sand bucket, so I thought I would share the photo :).

We had planned to do some cookie decoration at the park, but DD was having disciplinary issues so we left the park early (she ran away from me as I was trying to speak to her, and she refused to come to me when I called for her because she was too busy playing with her lady bugs). Anyhow because we left early, she did not get to decorate cookies.

You know how it is, you can't reward bad behavior.

Mickey cookies

We are meeting our friends at the park tomorrow for a cookie decorating playdate, so I made some cookies tonight. Instead of making normal old boring sugar cookies, I decided to make some M-I-C-K-E-Y cookies. I am very happy with the way they turned out ^_^. I only broke 2 of them during the cookie baking process, of course, DD and DH ate them right away (so we don't have to force our friends to eat badly shaped cookies, LOL).

Earth Day is fun!

We had a great day celebrating Earth Day today. After DD woke up this morning, we went to the Disney store and got our free water bottles, and then we headed over to the park for a Earth Day playdate.

Here is a photo of our friends at the park crafting and eating cupcakes :).

Pretty cupcakes Julie made.

Hanging out and having fun with other mommies and kids.

To celebrate Earth day, we decided to pot some seeds. Julie brought some dirt for everyone & Juniper and I brought seeds. This is a photo of DD getting ready for some dirt digging.

DD putting the dirts in her little pot. So cute!

DD taking the seeds from my hand to plant them in the pot.

Juniper and Jacob watering their pots.

Meanwhile DD gave up on her planting and decided to play instead.

Luckily she decided to come back and water her pots to get them ready.

She could not stop watering, so she watered Jacob's pot too.

And more watering, LOL!

After she was done with her watering, DD decided to play ball with Sebastian. I love how well they played together!

After she got tired of playing ball, she went back to watering. It was a good thing that Michelle just finshed helping Caden with his pots, so DD had more seeds to water.

Then back to playing again.

Before heading home, the kids decided that it would be fun to all run across the field and play with the net. ROFL! They are just to darn cute.

As you can see from the photos, DD had a blast running around and doing different things every 5 minutes. LOL! We had a wonderful time hanging out with our friends and celebrate Earth Day with them. Oh, and Norma (Sebastian's mommy) won the Werther's Original Caramel Chocolate Comfort House Party and kindly gave us 4 bags of chocolate. Yummy!