Another Grape Stomp

Today was the annual Grape Stomp at the local vineyard. As you may recall, we took Dougie there for the first time last year.

Unfortunately, Dougie had swimming this morning so he missed the harvesting but he made it in time for the stomp!

We had to wait a while before they filled the vat with grapes. Dougie hung out with Daddy and some friends from my MOMS Club.

At first, he watched them load the grapes into the destemmer.


Then he started to get a bit bored with the wait.


More bored.


It has GOT to be time to stomp.


And it almost was. They filled the vat and the kids got going. Dougie did a lot better this year.

At first, he tried to just get his feet out of the vat.


He kept pulling the grapes off but then he'd put his foot back in it and get covered again.


He stomped a little with Daddy's help - you can see how thrilled he is.


He was all smiles again once we got him out.




He even talked his way into a lollipop from a friend of mine.


Overall, it was a great morning! I'm sure we'll be back next year.