Pumpkin Patch

My husband’s family owns an appliance store, so he doesn’t always work the traditional Monday through Friday week. Yesterday he took his Saturday—AKA day off—and we decided to take the kids to the pumpkin patch.

I highly recommend doing this sort of thing during the week instead of the weekend if you can help it. There was virtually no one there, so we had a free run of the place. It may have helped to have a few kids there though. Eden didn’t have the four-year-old cousin to run around with like she did a few weeks ago when we went to Fairytale Town, so she was much less energetic. Still, she really loved jumping in the bounce castle and sliding down its slide.

While we were riding around the huge farm on a hayride, it began to sprinkle. We have had only a couple of rains since last spring, so it is slightly ironic that our outing would get rained upon. But it was warm and passed quickly, and Eden was excited with the splatters came.

The kids were pretty tired after the hayride. Let me rephrase. The adults were pretty tired. We tried to get going home, but our rather fussy kids wanted more fun, so we managed to hit a few more stations—more bounce castle, a climb up the hay ziggurat, a trip to the tomato gardens where Eden and Lance managed to each pick and eat one (I’m not sure if that’s allowed!), and a stop to pet some animals. The animals were a horse and a stray cat. (I think both kids were more impressed with the cat than anything else they saw all day.) Before we left Eden purchased a small pumpkin.

The day was fun, but hectic as all outings are with small children. I didn’t mention the trip to the bathrooms at the last minute, courtesy of our three-year-old, or the one-year-old who got a diaper change in the trunk. I didn’t mention that there was a loud pumpkin launching canon that scared both kids into tears. Nor did I mention our boy who kept running off to the other side of the farm, or our girl who thought the dirt was more entertaining that the pumpkins. That stuff is already almost forgotten, and I took tons of pictures to remember the rest.