Surprise Fruit

So yesterday the kids said they found some "fruit" outside and wanted to eat it. I told them not to because a lot of things look like fruit but they're not edible. The children persisted and when Cora told me she ate one I went outside to see what awful plant she ate, anticipating in my mind the rush to the hospital, the stomach pumping, Cora screaming while I held her down, etc. Then they showed me the tree, hanging into our yard and it was full of cherries. Really, yummy cherries and just below it was a vine of, what was that, raspberries! Yum! So the kids and I picked the raspberries, brought them in the house and began to eat them. I forgot to take a picture until almost all of them were eaten. They were really good. It was a pleasant surprise to see we had raspberries growing back there. It looks like a few more will ripen soon. There are a lot of other "surprise" plants in the backyard and I just assumed they were all weeds. I was going to go out and pull them all up last week but I'm glad I didn't. We'll wait another couple of weeks to see if anything sprouts. (And I want a good reason to continue to be lazy.)

I love the second pic of Jonah's hands. Notice his little feet sticking out from under his hands.