Blueberry Bliss

This year the blueberries ripened really early and I found some really tasty ones at the grocery store for a great price so I bought 60 pints.  You might be thinking, "wow, that's a lot" but I bought 50 pints last year and we ate or gave away about 10 pints and we ran out about four months early and I was rationing them every time we took out a bag from the freezer.  So this time I ended up freezing 50 pints and this year Henry helped me during the entire process!  When I bought all those blueberries, the first thing Henry said to me was, "Mommy, what were you thinking?!"  with his hands up in the air.  Couldn't agree with you more my son. 

His job was carrying a crate of 6 pints over to the sink and emptying each pint into a colander and rinsing them off.  He also had to stack each crate and the empty pints in neat stacks.  I poured the washed blueberries onto towels to let them dry and picked out the squished ones and stems.  After they were dry we put them into bags and carted them down to the freezer.  I have rarely seen Henry so dedicated to his work.  He even came up with a few songs about blueberries while we were working.  This was the best one...

We love to froze blueberries

We love to froze blueberries

We love to froze blueberries

Wash 'em, smush 'em, put 'em in a bag

Apples are disgusting

Let's eat 'em all up

I have to agree with him that we haven't eaten a good apple in a really long time. Afterward, Henry and Bea built some awesome towers with the cases.  Here are the proud architects!

Thanks Henry for helping me do the blueberries this year.

Dad Time

Henry and Bea have had some really great Dad time recently.  They have had so much fun together, however you probably won't hear about much of it because Justin won't write it in the blog.  Here is a pic of the three amigos and the card that Henry made for Justin for his Birthday last week.  Henry made the whole thing and it's of the two of them fishing, even though they didn't catch any fish and some guy gave them one to take home since he felt bad for Henry.

Great Big Brother

Henry wants me to take photos of him and Clementine all the time.  He has been pretty good at protecting her and unless he's seeking for attention, in which case he copies what Bea is doing to her.  I can tell, though, from the sparkle in his eyes that he really loves her.

End of Soccer

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Henry spent the last couple months playing soccer with a bunch of his friends.  It took a while for him to get into it but in the end he really loved it.  We had an awards ceremony last week where they all got a cupcake and a medal for participating.  Thanks to Stef Chou for putting it all together!

The kids in the photo are...(from top to bottom and left to right)
Henry, Daniel, Stef's neighbor Chloe?, Kaitlin, Emmalee, No idea
Avery, Thomasin, Wee-o, Kennadee, Katherine, Hudson.

Scarf Clug

Yesterday while Henry was sitting on the potty he took the end of the toilet paper roll and put it in the toilet and then he wrapped it around his neck a few times to create a scarf to keep himself warm while on the sat.  When he emerged from the bathroom he said, "Mom, if you see a scarf coming out of the toilet, don't flush it or else it will become clugged".  Good thing Justin watched the whole thing go down so he could explain it all to me. Thanks for the good laugh Henry.