With the apple and pear season coming to a close, I decided to take the kids to Julien for some apple/pear picking. The final goal was to make baby food and some good homemade applesauce. Bella and I headed out, and were able to talk Jake –my kid’s idol– into coming with us. Here is our afternoon in pictures:
Icka had to go potty on the way up, and Bella came up with a really good solution for the girl who doesn’t “like to get dirty”.
Isn’t she a weasel!
The kids were loving the apple farm. There were tons on the ground, and I had to teach Icka that we only wanted apples from the trees. Luckily there were still a bunch on the trees, and the kids found it to be a great treasure hunt. I know where they get it, because I totally thought it was like we were hunting for treasure too!
Icka scored with this “beauty”! I kept saying, “Look at this beauty,” and every time the kids found a good one (no worm holes, a little yellow with a little red, firm to the touch), they would holler out, “I have a beauty!”
With Scout’s love of fruit (and Jake claims he is semi-fruitarian), the kids loved the part where they just ate whatever and however much they wanted. Let’s just say that they definitely had their fiber intake for the day — or for that matter…for the week! I estimate that Scout had at least 20 apples while we were there. (They are on the smaller side, but that is still absurd!)
The best sport in the world, Jake, was up for orchard races vs. Scout. According to Scout, he won every time. But seeing as Jake is signed up for a 50 mile run in November, I think he was giving Scout chancies!
It wouldn’t be a complete day if Icka wasn’t doing something to make us laugh. Here she is getting stuck in the ropes between the aisles.
But the real laughs came when she would offer to clean our apples for us. She saw us all cleaning them on our pants to shine them up — but took it as putting the apple down our pants and when they came out the bottom — wallah — they were clean!
After the apple orchard, we headed over to pick pears. Scout loved using the basket to get to the pears. But he wasn’t in love with the fact that they were all hard. (I found out later that pears don’t ripen on trees, but rather wait until they are off the tree to become soft and delicious.)
The princess Icka took a seat and waited for Jake to serve her. She apparently didn’t care if the pears were ripe or not.
As you can tell!
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Our loot was plentiful, and we did make both applesauce and baby food.
It was all a success
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