So I got a little domestic yesterday…don’t know why. Maybe since I’ve been PMSing for the last month. Arggh! Anyhow, started out like any other day where we got up, went to swimming lessons (Carlos has teacher “Tam” the rest of the week and he LOVES her…his first swim teacher…so he’s happy to get into the pool) and the kids came home, ate lunch and napped. While they napped I made spaghetti sauce from scratch and let it simmer in the crockpot for the day. I even snuck some garden-grown zucchinis in the sauce and they never knew.

The kids got up, we played outside for a little while and decided to go to Battle Point to pick blackberries. Our boys are GREAT pickers…here’s how it always goes: I give each of the boys a cup to put their berries in, and I pick with a bowl that they can dump their cup into.

Levi kinda picks, he examines each berry and tries to find ones that are perfect. If they are a little red, he’ll eat them and tell me how “spicy” they are. The majority of the time he is too worried about the prickers or gets too distracted by a bug or spider to keep picking. When he comes to dump his cup, there are usually about 6 berries in it.

Carlos is a little worker. He knows the job and picks and picks. He stomps down the prickers to get to berries that are just out of his reach and doesn’t mind if he gets a scratch. When he comes to dump his cup, it’s at least half full.

Trey likes to pick berries, but he just can’t help himself and he eats most of what he picks. We’ll be lucky if he contributes 2 berries to the greater good.

So anyhow, we picked berries yesterday and came home and the boys played outsided awhile and then we came in while I put the pasta together (success…they loved it!) and made blackberry cobbler (they loved that, too!). Got them to bed then tried to watch a show and was too tired to keep my eyes open so I was actually in bed by 9:15 reading! The downside of going to bed so early…I was wide awake at 5:30. Hmmmmmmmmmm.

The pictures are of our little “Erkel”…each night at bedtime, Carlos pulls his pajama bottoms up as high as he can and dances around laughing. This particular pair of pjs doesn’t hike up too high, but you get the idea. It’s hilarious!