Wilson's Orchard

Last Sunday, we enjoyed a family trip to the apple orchard. Sylvia and I have been out a couple of times for preschool picnics but this is the first time we picked apples...and took dada with us. She walked right up to the building when we got there. Before heading out into the orchard we stopped for a potty break. The bathrooms have barn boards on the wall and Sylvia sings EIEI (Old McDonald) every time we've used them.

I have failed to officially announce on the the blog that I am pregnant. However, if you didn't already know, it is now obvious from the picture below.


Sylvia enjoyed carrying her own basket and was not thrilled that we took it from her once it was filled with apples.




We had a hard time finding apples within reach on any of the trees at first so Sylvia settled for picking them up off the ground. She didn't have the best taste in apples so we ended up taking most of them out of the basket when she wasn't looking.



She learned that you have to pull the apples off the trees and now says "pull" whenever she sees an apple. She's really using some leverage here to get this one off.


Unfortunately, we weren't able to catch a ride on the trailer but Sylvia enjoyed hanging out on dada's shoulders. We've been having more frequent meltdowns recently so I was impressed that she did okay with the tractor driving without us on it on three separate occasions.