Blueberry Summer

We love blueberries at our house! This summer I've taken the boys several times to go picking with me. The first time was a little iffy but they got the hang of it soon enough. (and by "got the hang of it", I mean they realized they could use the pick and eat method.) The first time we went, Jake was picking on a bush behind me and kept asking me to look and see if the berry he picked was a good one.

I told him to taste it and if it was good then the berries like it would be good too. He decided that was a good enough answer and went back to picking. Pretty soon he said, "Mom, I'm tasting each and every one!" I thought he just meant he was eating all that he picked instead of putting them in his bucket. I looked in his bucket a minute later and found that he was indeed tasting each and every one. He was picking, taking a bite, and then dropping the half eaten berry in his bucket!

Evan didn't even mess around with putting any in his bucket. They went straight down the hatch and when I tried to convince him to pick them to take home he tried chanting, "Don't eat 'em, don't eat 'em, don't eat 'em." , while he was picking. It didn't work and every time I asked him how his bucket was coming along, he said "Not good".

Colin mostly ate his too but wasn't good at remembering that only the blue ones were good to eat.

I'm glad we made so many fun memories this summer! I'm really going to miss the blueberries and the picking now that summer is nearing an end and school is starting very, very soon. There are fun things that go along with that but there is nothing quite like summer time!