Cherry harvest in our orchard is tomorrow so we went down to snag a few of the ruby gems for our personal eating before the trees get picked clean and the fruit sent to the packing house.

Karenna had just woken up so I plopped her in the stroller and she just kind of sat there like a sleepy lump while we filled our bowls.

Avelyn has been eating fresh cherries by the pound and I keep waiting for the inevitable sprint to the bathroom. So far, so good. She can hold her fruit. Good thing she’s a farmer’s daughter.

After a chilly, rainy start to summer we are at the beginning of our first full-fledged heat wave and I am not entirely ready for it. We’ll just be at the beach, downing ice cubes and freezies and cranking the A/C while we try to stay cool.

In other news, Avelyn had her first professional haircut. I had done an uneven hack job with our kitchen shears a few months ago and the ends were in dire need of a trim. So on a whim I took her to the ghetto salon in our local mall and she looked so grown up sitting in the chair with the big, dark cape around her neck. She looks decidedly less like Mowgli from the Jungle Book now and her hair is much less tangley and easier to comb through now that she’s had a decent cut. I just wish I had brought my camera. Guess I’ll just have to store that memory in the ol’ grey matter instead.

I hope your summer is off to a lovely start, just like ours!