The Fruit Saga Continues...

This morning, Bub spent about an hour playing in the yard and ended up with a new fruit collection. We have a papaya tree, mango tree, lemon tree, and a couple of other fruit bearing trees. There is one particular papaya tree that grows right outside our room which he is very attached to. He has protected its fruit from being picked early and watched it carefully, waiting for the papayas to ripen. (If you've only ever had store ripened papayas, then you wouldn't know how good tree ripened papayas are. I personally think store ripened papayas taste somewhat like vomit, but they are so sweet and good when they ripen on a tree!) Anyway, we've been slowly eating each papaya fruit as it ripens.

Today he picked a smaller papaya that was almost ripe and added that and a green mango that fell off our mango tree to his "fruit collection" that he carries around the house. Between the mango, the papaya and the coconut he couldn't even manage it all and we finally had to get him a bag to carry it all in, as he was inconsolable without his "fruit salad"! We finally had to banish the papaya to the fridge, as it was getting bruised by being carried about and cuddled all day, but tonight the coconut is in his bed and the mango is on his desk! As long as he doesn't start trying to sleep with a banana....