Strawberry Pickin'

Friday morning Noah and I joined our friends Hannah and Lisa for a trip to pick some strawberries. We headed over to a farm on Wadamalaw and spent the morning collecting lots of delicious berries!

Noah and Hannah with their berry picking buckets.

In typical Noah fashion, he was very anal about picking the strawberries. He would touch a berry, examine it, and then declare, "No Mama, this one is too dirty." I tried to explain to him that all the strawberries were dirty and that is how it is on a farm, but my little city boy did get it. Eventually he just stuck to carrying the bucket for me and pointing to the strawberries that he wanted. He had a blast though, especially looking at the tractors and running around with Hannah. And I am very excited about all my fresh strawberries!

Easter weekend

We had a really wonderful Easter weekend. Our friends Julie and Devin came to town and we had a great time just hanging out. They brought there dog Maggie and Noah had a blast playing with her. He kept calling her the baby doggie and wanted her to lick his ear!

Easter morning we went to church. How cute is my boy in his Easter outfit?

He must have thought he looked pretty cool too, because he was under the impression that he should be in all pictures that we took.

See him hanging out by my leg?

Anyway, church was amazing. So great to be reminded about the hope we have in the risen Christ. How he understands all our suffering because he experienced the ultimate suffering and how he allows to be loved by God as sons and daughters.

The beautiful weather and an egg hunt finished up our weekend for us. Noah was very into finding eggs this year!

Hunting with Hannah in the yard.

A good time was had by all!

Hippity Hoppity, Easter's On It's Way!

Noah has been getting very into Easter eggs. I bought a kit - the tie-dye kind, by the way, which ended up being pretty cool - and we set out to color our eggs last night. At first Noah was very bored. Actually, I don't think he knew what we were doing but the minute I pulled out those color tablets and they started dissolving in the vinegar he was all about dying him some eggs!




The tie dye eggs turned out to be a little too complicated for a two year old, so Wes and Noah did the eggs the old fashioned way while I made some using the tie dye method. Noah was very serious about stirring the eggs while they were in the dye. Wes was petrified that he was going to spill. Me? I was too busy creating my own works of art to care about spillage. Yet another difference between natural born Shealys and married in Shealys.....

This morning we continued the egg fun by going to an Easter egg hunt and the house of some of our church friends. Noah did enjoy hunting for eggs - even if he only found four.



For some reason he is just not that competitive when it comes to egg hunts. He found some eggs and then said, "I'm done." I asked him how many he had. He looked into his basket, counted them, and said, "Four. I'm good." And off he went to see how his friends were.




Noah and his buddy Olin with the spoils of the hunt.


So, that is what we are up to. And oh yeah, apparently baths are NOT cool anymore. These days we take a shower. Long, hot showers where we scream out "5 more minutes!" every time we tell him it's time to get out.