Raspberries!

Raspberry Fields Forever!

I LOVE raspberries. A lot.

So a few days ago Naomi and I drove up to Butlers farm again to get our fill. The rows of raspberry bushes go on forever it seems and they are all just covered in fruit. I barely had to move to fill up our little buckets. More than anything I want a garden with raspberries in it, one day when we have a house:)

I had visions of Naomi picking along side me, dropping berries into the buckets like a fun little game. Or maybe something like Blueberries for Sal, I love that book, but without finding bears of course.

Well it turns out Naomi had her own agenda. She was thrilled when I showed her what was on all those bushes and off she went to pick. I tried at first and then gave up all together trying to get her to put some in the bucket with me. She was literally a kid in a candy shop. She picked and ate and ate and ate.

I felt a little guilty at first but she really couldn't have eaten all THAT much, she can only handle on berry at a time. Oh well.

The funniest had to be when she pulled a white (unripe) berry off and popped it into her mouth and then promptly back out again. She looked at it a little puzzled. I told her that it wasn't ripe yet and that the good ones are the RED ones.

"Ohtah!" and she went back to work.

Towards the end she did contribute about 4-5 berries to the bucket. But she had a hard time parting with them, she wanted them back out but I told her just get some more. A few times she even came over to me with a berry to put in and then got almost ready to let it go and then said "eat" and popped it in her mouth.

What a girl.

When we were done we drove back to the store, weighed and payed for our berries and headed home. It was such a blast. Naomi had as much fun there as she does at the "park" - the playground but she'd never admit it!