Visit to the Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday we made our second annual visit to a local (1.5 hours away) Pumpkin Patch. The boys, once again, had a great time with the slides, zip line, corn maze, and pumpkin picking. Lily was pretty grumpy, but seemed to enjoy herself at times, too. She, of course liked totally different things than the boys.

She was fascinated by the scarecrows posed all over the place and wanted to go see them all. Of course, I couldn't get a picture of her doing this b/c every time I put her down she followed right behind me! Lily also surprised me by wanting to get her face painted and following through when we sat down for the girl to paint her face. Together, we decided on a ghost. You'll see in the picture, but the face painter was not a professional! Either way, though, Lily looked cute.



Lily also enjoyed looking at the baby animals. Dylan also enjoyed seeing the animals, but Ben continued with his record of refusing to look at the animals and complaining while the rest of us did so!

Lily saying "moo moo" to the cow


Dylan feeding the goat


My 3 Sunflowers


This is not a great picture of any of hte kids, but getting all 3 of them back there at one time was quite an accomplishment!


The boys on the pedal tractors




Lily while the boys rode tractors (she fell asleep in the corn maze)


Ben made it to the top of one of those ladders that flip over VERY easily. We were so proud of him!


The boys on the hay ride


Lily and her pumpkin. She was NOT happy that I put her down! Could you resist that face?


Ben and his pumpkin


That was our trip! Tonight, Lily did something for the very first time - she saw her first fireworks show! We have a founders' day in our neighborhood. I'm not exactly sure what its for (our neighborhood is about 12 years old), but they have a cookout that is free for members and an excellent fireworks show over the golf course. We sit on a hill that is above the golf course fairway and can watch them shoot off the fireworks. They are shot into an area surrounded by mountains with no trees or buildings anywhere nearby. So, we have a completely unobstructed view of every little explosion. The booming sound echoes of the nearby mountains.

I was a little bit nervous about Lily's reaction to the fireworks, but this ended up being totally unnecessary. We talked beforehand about the loud boom and she didn't have a problem with it. She smiled, laughed, and commented that the fireworks were "good" and "big". She said ready, set, go and boom as they exploded. After particularly cool parts, she clapped along with some people sitting near us. She told me all the way until I put her to bed that they were "big" "good" and "boom." It was so cute! I have a few terrible pictures that I took while she was watching fireworks, but I will post them soon.