Our First Trip to a U-Pick Orchard

We had the pleasure of Dan's mom (Gail) and her boyfriend (Gino) coming to visit us this week. We had a lot of fun and made our first ventures out of the house with Ethan in underwear instead of Pull-Ups. Most, but not all, of our away-from-home potty training ventures were successful (which I'll blog about later). On Monday we got to explore a really nice local U-Pick orchard where they also grow sweet corn. Yum! I love Honey Crisp apples and was hoping that they would be ready to pick. We were there a little bit early in the season for them, but a nice gentleman who worked at the orchard drove us out to the rows of Honey Crisp trees and helped us find several trees with more mature apples to pick. After picking a couple of bags of apples, we headed to the sweet corn field where Ethan helped Grandma Q. and Daddy pick some corn from the stalks.

Ethan thought that picking corn was neat

Grandma Q. and Ethan selecting some corn
Daddy showed Ethan how to pull and twist the corn from the stalk
Look what I have Mom!

The apples and sweet corn were delicious! We'll definitely be making some return trips to the orchard.