Earlier this week Helena & I went strawberry picking with friends at Whittamore's Farm. It was fun to observe the girls in the new environment. At first they were pretty uninterested in tasting the strawberries...
Of course, once they were done eating berries, they were DONE. No more berries for the rest of the day and their preference would have been no more picking too.
So one mom picked while the other mom read to the girls, gave the girls containers to put lids on, took the girls for walks, played in the straw with them...
and played with rocks. Rocks are fun for all kids, but I realized out there that Helena almost never sees rocks, being the downtown city girl that she is. Helena & Holly could have played in the rocks all day long.
Helena & Holly are two and a half months apart, so there still is a developmental difference between the them. We observed one at the farm - Holly saw the rows of plants and would walk in a line down the straw paths. Helena, on the other hand, had a really hard time seeing the rows of plants (to be fair, they were a little sparse in greenery!) and would charge right through them over and over and over again.
On the way to the car, Helena found a puddle when her Mom wasn't watching. This picture was taken right BEFORE she sat down in it!
The girls' favorite part of the farm was definitely the painted animals. Christa's and my favorite part - the berries and the jam that followed. Oh, how I love strawberry picking!
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