Monday, October 18, 2010

Harvest Festival & Pumpkin Picking

Last Saturday we went to the Harvest Festival at Black Island Farms.  What a great Fall activity right?  It was 78 degrees and HOT!!  Although that is better than freezing cold, it didn’t feel like Fall at all.  We had a great time though!

They had some goats, turkeys, llamas, etc. and Adam enjoyed looking at them.  Apparently when you run a pumpkin farm, your animals eat a lot of pumpkins.  ALL the animals were munching on pumpkins!

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There were a bunch of fun things for little kids including a hay maze, tire swings, lots of slides, a cow train, and corn box.  And that’s just the stuff I got pictures of!
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  This is what Abby did….chilled out in her strollerDSCF4036

Then we went on the tractor/wagon ride way out to the pumpkin patch.  There were A LOT of pumpkins!

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Abby was either tired or didn’t the wind and dust because she spent most of the wagon ride snuggled into Daddy. DSCF4050

Picking pumpkins
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We got 4 lovely pumpkins for our front porch and we’ll be carving them next week!  Adam has no idea what he’s in for!

Random note….this farm is about 10 minutes down the road from us.  And look…..there is nothing else around!  It’s kind of fun living in the middle of a city but only 5 or 10 minutes away from nothing but nature.

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A Little Bit of Tot School

I have been less-than motivated the past 2 weeks when it comes to Tot School. Although, we did start a Before Five in a Row book but life kept happening so I decided to bag it and save it for later. So, here are the very few things we did last week.

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You know your kid watches too much Dora the Explorer and Handy Manny when he starts counting in Spanish! I guess there could be worse things to learn from cartoons, huh? :)

We visited my parents one day and after Papa got home from work, Adam had fun playing his "game" with him. Really, it's just matching shapes but that's very Tot Schoolish don't you think?DSCF3961