Eat your veggies!

Spring has sprung, and produce has become a BIG thing around here.  

Here is Bert, so very excited about our haul from the farmer's market.  (I think that egg basket is one of my favorite thrift finds.)

Mimi managed to snag a leek on the way through the kitchen while I was preparing dinner.  She absolutely destroyed that poor vegetable, but she managed to eat a respectable portion of the bulb before I got nervous about the green bits that threatened to detach themselves and take up lodging in her throat.  

Wonder Daddy brought home a HUGE tub of California strawberries when I sent him to the store for eggs- Ernie was over the moon.  She simple adores strawberries- I think she ate 10 in this particular sitting.  She's properly kitted herself out, too- doesn't she look proper, sitting on the deck in her party clothes, little red chair, small tub of berries... she's so funny :)  

I don't have a picture of this, but she's eaten all but one of our 6 farmer's market apples.  They're small Fujis- she picks one out, rummages in the tupperware drawer till she finds a container with a lid that suits her, and takes her "lunch" outside.  She'll come back for seconds or thirds, too.  I drew the line at taking multiple apples at one time for her "friends."  Her friends are getting quite numerous- we can't drive away until she crawled around the back seat buckling them all in: Maren, Isabella, Boy, Nathan, Bolt, BBJ....and then we have to UNBUCKLE them when we arrive, and she shoos them toward wherever we're going.