Thursday, June 19, 2014

Discovery Green

Recently, we went to Discovery Green with my friend Lauren and her two kids.  This was our first time to this park and it's located in the middle of downtown Houston.   It has a big playground and then a tiled area where there are fountains that turn the area into a little splashpad. 

Since we had never been before and didn't know what to expect, we didn't take the kids' swimsuits unfortunately.  But, we at least took an extra change of clothes just in case...which is a good thing we did!  

The park unfortunately was in full sun and a bit too big kiddish for our little ones.  So once the kids discovered the fountains, we stayed there the rest of the time until lunch!   At first they all started off real slow by just dipping their toes in the water.  But it didn't take them too long until they realized just how fun it was and they were all drenched head to toe!!!   And our lack of planning meant we didn't have a towel at all.  We shared a burp cloth I had in my diaper bag to dry off the kids before changing their clothes, haha! 

I have to say it was actually kinda fun to just let the kids do what they want and get drenched in their clothes.  They were so happy and had a blast!    However, Lauren and I do plan to go a little more prepared with swimsuits and swim shoes next time!   ;)

Luckily I could just take Andrew's shorts off and let him run around in his onesie

Joseph starting off slow by dipping his toes in

Kyle and Andrew are in the background.  They definitely were braver (and wetter!) before Joseph and Annabelle!

Getting wet!


Joseph had so fun trying to figure out where the water would pop out of next

And there goes Joseph and Annabelle to become completely soaked  :)

So many smiles!

Blueberry Picking

The last weekend in May, we went to the blueberry farm where we went last year to pick our own blueberries!  Coming from our new house, we are now only about 20 minutes away from the farm...much closer!

It was about 5000% humidity the day we went so we planned to go nice and early.  The day we went was after the week where Houston got about 9 inches of rain.  So there were some very muddy areas but we managed.  Luckily we put Joseph in his rain boots which worked out perfect. 

I kept Andrew in the stroller as long as he could stand it because I knew after I got him out, I would just do nothing but chase him around!  :)  But having said that, he loves to be outside and I like when he has new places to explore.   Joseph wasn't into picking quite as much as he was last year, but he managed to eat his fair share for sure.

We ended up with 8 1/2 pounds of blueberries - YUM!   We have made so many cobblers and I made a new recipe of blueberry & lemon crumb bars that were super good too. 

Not to mention, a few weeks before all this, we discovered a HUGE wild dewberry patch behind our neighborhood.  Let's just say we picked enough to make homemade jam, a couple of cobblers, froze some and still lots to munch on.  And those were free!  :)          Love this pick your own fresh fruit thing!

Joseph picking his first berry with his own little bucket

So focused  ;)

Loves being with his daddy

They had a bit of fun with the buckets before we left

Michael picking berries

CHEESE!

Andrew keeping himself busy

Here Comes Trouble!

Andrew heading with Daddy to go weigh all our berries

My precious boys - I can't believe everyone's looking the same direction!

Homemade cobbler that night

Ta-da!