We took Teddy and Charlie to pick strawberries in the late afternoon today. It was the nicest afternoon. We rode a tractor out to the fields and we all started picking strawberries, looking through the bushes to get ones that were ripe and not munched on my little animals. Teddy and MJ lasted for only a few minutes (as MJ said, “When it’s 100 degrees outside and I have some free time, I don’t want to go be a farm laborer”). Charlie and I kept going and going. Charlie did such a great job of finding ripe strawberries and was so thoughtful about getting good ones. I couldn’t have been happier walking through the fields with just him and me. He is such good company. I loved every minute of being with him.
I then walked over with Teddy to see the farm animals. I said “Teddy, look baby animals.” He took off running towards the first pen with his arms open yelling “Baby animals, come to me!” He went right up to a goat and said “You are a cutie” (which is also said when he found a teeny tiny strawberry–“Look Mommy, a cutie.”). Talk about a cutie. He petted all of them. He noticed “Two goats have ears and have horns, one goat has just ears no horns, ” which I thought was extremely observant.
Charlie found a baby goat who was so sweet and cute and Charlie took pictures and said “Let’s frame it and hang it on the wall next to the lamb picture in my room.” It is a great picture and we will do that. Later that night Charlie played baby goat and he was the goat and I was him petting him and feeding him grass.