I have to admit...I love the summer sun. I get a little sad when it disappears and hibernates for several months beginning in the fall up here in the pacific northwest. But then I am reminded every year when the leaves start to turn color and the fog rolls in every morning, how much I love this season too. We have never taken the kids to a pumpkin patch before. Why, you ask? Who knows. But I was struck with the impulse to go while laying in bed last night, figuring we'd have a ton of fun, and we sure did!
If you've never been I think you'd be quite surprised, just as we were, at all you can do at a pumpkin patch. Here are just a few examples...
1) Search for the biggest, funniest looking pumpkin
2) Enjoy watching all the farm animals. Sam loved hearing the roosters "cock-a-doodle-doo" and the turkeys "gobble gobble"
3) Bake a cake in the playhouse (Grace found this much more entertaining while Samuel endlessly ran around watching the animals)
7) Splash in puddles
8) Measure how tall you are
9) Practice your targeting skills using the pumpkin slingshot
11) Work your muscles lifting pumpkins
We didn't actually buy a pumpkin on our visit to the pumpkin patch. I know, sacrilege. We bought one a couple weeks ago, and lets be honest, carving one pumpkin in the presence of 2 toddlers is about as much as anyone can handle. That is on our list of activities for next week. I did love hanging out in the presence of all those delightful pumpkins, but what I fell head over heels for was the splendor on my kids faces. It's days like these that remind me how blessed we are to have such beautiful kiddos and family.
HAPPY FALL TO ALL
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