Tiny has been waking up earlier than usual for the past week or so. Melissa typically gets to sleep until 7:30 before Tiny rousts, and the day of go!go!go! begins. On several recent days, Tiny has awakened at 7:00 and on a couple of occasions, 6:45 - oh! horror!
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Today's playgroup event took Melissa and Tiny to an Apex strawberry farm that catered quite well to children. For $5, Tiny received both a berry basket for hauling her harvest and instructions on which strawberries were suitable for picking - Just the red ones. Not the green ones and not the ones with just a little red on them.
Then it was out to the field to find the best berries for Daddy! Melissa did the actual picking, but Tiny provided the supervision, giving her approval on select berry beauties that Daddy would certainly appreciate. While Melissa scoured the berry patch to select only the most suitable gems for plucking, Tiny's tough scrutiny deemed some as Too big! - and others Too little! Eventually the small basket was filled, and just in time because Tiny's attention had drifted on to other goings on.
The strawberry farm featured a friendly horse that another visitor decided needed to eat an apple. Tiny marveled at just how messy the horse devoured it. Globs of apple and spit streamed from the horse's mouth. That horse needs a napkin, doesn't he Mommy!?
Then, over there, Melissa led some of the kidlets on a quest to find the farm's peacock, which was screaming from the hardwood thicket. The small parade followed her to the source of the noise and were delighted to chase the fowl around the grounds, where he pleased them all with his uproar.
Tiny continues to develop her social skills and played happily with her friends in the playgroup. As she did last week, she found joy in sharing suckers with each of them.
Click the following pic to view the fun!
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| Strawberry Picking |
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