Friday, October 19, 2012

Pumpkin patch

Full disclosure: I post these pictures but I wasn't actually at the pumpkin patch, I was leading services that morning instead.  So my captions come from Jonathan's retelling of the event!

 Taking a train to get there




 Ari a little unsure on this train thing




 Feeling hay for the first time.  (And yes, that's a borrowed "monkey leash" - Jonathan said he had always been philosophically opposed to it, but that in practicality it was a life-saver with two kids!)




 Uncle Mike and John, kings of the hay stack





 Ari wanting to be held, Xander tentatively exploring





John was lost and then found




 Watching kids play games




 Auntie Lois showing Ari how to bowl




Apparently he cried hard when they left




 Xander on his second pony ride in as many weeks




The back of Jonathan in the hay maze




 Lunchtime




 Scarecrows along the hayride




My sons have trained me well.  I knew without even looking twice that this was a combine harvester.



When they got home from the pumpkin patch, and I got home from temple, Xander excitedly showed me his mini-pumpkin that he picked out.  There were three, one for him, one for Ari, and one for me!  We decorated them liberally with marker, and they now sit proudly in the playroom. Autumn, here we come!

6 comments:

  1. Your pictures look like so much fun!

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  2. What a fabulous day!
    Love you!
    Mom/Bubby

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  3. I keep coming back to look at these pictures......over and over and over again. They're wonderful.
    Mom/Bubby

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    1. Incredible experience! Two big-city Cincinnatti-born kids over-awed and bit overwhelmed when first meeting Mother Nature in the raw. Hay is scratchy...it looks soft in pictures. Those stacks of bales are a little scary, with steep open drops a few steps away. And the hay-maze!...the last one they encountered was so low that the bigger kids' heads could be seen from afar. But it didn't take long to feel a home, with even a horsie-ride! I wanted to sit down at that lunch picnic table with youse guye -- it looked so tempting. As for punkins
      -- wow! Bring on Thanksgiving! FAMILY FUN! Blows me away!

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  4. looks like another fun day.
    Sheryl
    p.s. I'm all in favor of leashes - especially in crowded places. With Caleb especially, he didn't like sitting in his stroller or holding hands, so the leash worked out well - he got use of his hands and I wasn't in a constant state of panic that he was going to disappear into the crowd at the zoo.

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  5. Mom and Savta and MamaNightSong - thank you. I only wish I could have gone, too. And Sheryl - yeah, the leashes are most definitely growing on us. :)

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