And the award goes to . . .

Well I actually did it! Today at a blueberry farm I won the Mother of the Year Award! We met Emily's friend Julia and her mom and sister at a local blueberry patch this morning. We picked the HOTTEST day of the year to go and it didn't take long for all of us to be drenched in sweat. We picked berries for about 30 minutes and Emily said she was ready to go. As we were walking back to pay for the berries we had picked, Emily suddenly started crying and telling me she wanted me to carry her. Well I just thought she was having one of her typical 3 year old drama meltdowns. I told her she was a big girl and needed to walk for me because I had Abigail on my back on the baby carrier Rachel was letting me use. She started crying really hard at this point and told me her stomach hurt. So I picked her up and in the middle of my speech to her about "drying it up or we were going straight home instead of eating lunch with Julia", she threw up all over me and her. Wow . . . what a great mom I am! To pay me back for not showing compassion to my sick child when she needed me, she did manage to get a fair amount of puke on me. Nice . . .

We went to the bathroom and cleaned up as best we could. I even clogged their sink a little when I washed all the puke off her arms. At first I thought she had eaten a bad blueberry but realized that it was because she was so hot! Abigail was even getting limp on me from sweating so much. Goodness! Luckily I had a change of clothes in the car for Emily.

Rachel stood in line to pay for our blueberries and paid a whopping 47 cents for both our buckets : ) Needless to say we aren't great blueberry pickers. Here is our stash that we made it home with:
I have a new respect for all those great people out there who pick our fruit for us that I buy at the store!

Here are Emily and Julia on their way to pick berries:
After Emily cooled off she was back to her normal happy self and asked if we were still going to the mall to eat and ride the merry go round . . . so we did. We ate lunch and got on the merry go round, but as I was trying to get her up on the horse to ride she changed her mind and decided it was too high up. So me, Abigail, and Emily sat on the bench on the merry go round . . . and just went round and round : ) When Julia got off the ride she said, "Emily I rode the elephant" and Emily said, "We rode on the bench!" with a big happy grin on her face like it was the best thing ever!