Dear Murphy: Brown's Berry Patch

Hey there, kiddo. We've been slacking on updating your blog these days and no small amount of people have reminded us about it. So, since we had a break today, we have some photos from this summer for your friends and family to see. These photos are actually a couple months old (as you can tell from the scorching sun). Your Nanny was in town for a visit, so we decided to go berry picking. We headed up to Brown's Berry Patch for a fun day in the sun. I absolutely love these kitchy photo-op boards, as your Dad unfortunately knows.

So, the first thing we saw when we got there were two goats running around on top of the barn. They built this cool walkway up for the goats to wander around on and have some feeding stations. You're supposed to put your feed into the cup and pull the strap so it heads up to the goat, but apparently the goats wised up after waiting twenty minutes for a two year old to pull on the belt, and they just pull it up with their teeth.

Then we headed into the berry patch!

We had a wagon to carry our berries, and you insisted on pulling it yourself. We went on a very indirect path, and it took a lot longer than we'd anticipated, but you did it!

We started with blueberries, and you were a machine. Daddy didn't have to show you at all -- you just knew to grab the blue ones, and you rocked it. Seriously, you had your game face on and went to town. I don't think you picked one unripe one. We didn't have as much luck with blind Nanny's basket. Her method was that if it came off the bush, it must be ripe! Needless to say, I spent more time picking out branches from her basket than picking myself. :)

This is you and I waving to Daddy!

After we finished picking berries, we played for a while before heading off. They had a tractor half-buried in the ground, and you loved driving it.

Actually, you really just like anything with a wheel -- they also had a sweet pirate ship!

We had a blast. I hope we'll go apple picking soon, but knowing your Mom and Dad, that post won't be up until it's snowing. That's it for today -- I'll leave you with one shot inside the ship.