We visited a Blueberry U-Pick a few days ago.
The girls loved it!
Piper would still be there picking today
if we hadn't dragged her out of there.
Once we gave her the crate to start filling up,
there was no stopping her.
At first she started picking EVERY berry and putting it in the crate.
Nana stopped her and explained that only the BLUE blueberries were good
and that the white ones were not good.
THANK goodness I was watching Piper
because next thing I know,
every BLUE blueberry was going into her bin
and all of the white berries were being picked off
and thrown onto the ground!
I asked her why she was doing that.
She then told me that Nana said that those ones were no good.
YIKES.
It only took a short explanation for her to understand
that she had to leave the white ones to ripen
and we were able to carry on
without destroying any future fruit.
Elliotte, on the other hand, was a little trickier.
She doesn't know her colors yet.
And doesn't care.
She was eating the blue blueberries and the white ones
as fast as her little fingers could pick them off.
You'd know she had eaten a white one
by the sour scrunched up look on her face.
Priceless!!
AND...
the adventures didn't end there.
Not long into the picking,
Piper started squirming and saying that she needed to pee.
There was no one around,
so I took her potty out of the van
and placed it on the grass road that you drive on to get to the fields.
I thought, "what's a little pee on the road?"
It's no different than if a dog peed there, right?!
Well, while she was happily sitting on the potty,
she looks up at me and proudly shouts,
"I'm doing my poop, mom!"
Nooooooooooooooo!!!
I tried to convince her to stop and hold it until we could get to a toilet.
No.
I begged her.
Too late.
POOP!
My daughter just shat
in the middle of the U-Pick fields.
Oh. My. Word!
I semi-panicked before I remembered having Blue's poop bags in my van.
It was not something I ever wanted to do,
but it worked
and I was able to clean up any evidence that we had ever been there
and soiled the ground.
Ohhhh Piper Cee!
xo
xo
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| Picking blueberries with Poppy. |
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| And eating all of the ones that Poppy already picked. |
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| Self-serve buffet! |
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Nana and Piper were very serious about the picking!
They were both there to get the job done. |
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| I can't get enough of these two enjoying time together! |
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| PEI really is a beautiful island. |
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We decided to go to the U-Pick because we thought my girls would love it.
Turns out that Nana and Poppy were having just as much fun as the little ones! |
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With not a soul in sight,
we filled a crate of blueberries,
weighed them
and then left the money in this little tackle box.
I love the honor system and trust in this province. |
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| Elliotte wasn't the only one eating our hard work. |
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One of my favourite photo that I have ever taken of my girls.
LOVE! |
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| Berry picking was an absolute success with these two. |
