Today was a return to the barn and pumpkin patch.
The kids have been asking to go since last weeks birthday activities. After a hearty pancake breakfast, we eventually got in the car and headed out.

Sidenote: Sometimes, as any parent will attest, simple things like getting ready to go out, can take an extraordinarily long time. I think it actually took us 40 minutes to have the kids get dressed, brush hair, and put on shoes and socks. Seriously!

So we get there, and there are about 200 people there! This place is getting too popular. But we got in and both David and Isabelle went right to the bunnies. Then after about 60 seconds, David was up and ready to move on. There are so many animals to pet ans things to do! I really thought he just had to pee, because of the little dance he was doin'. But he just wanted to move on and catch everything right now!

Isabelle loved holding the bunnies, and the baby kittens. I think in the first 45 minutes, she and I only saw those two pens, while David and Julie ran all the way around the farm, petting piglets, ducklings, goats, a pony, a cow, more ducklings, kittens, chics, and chickens. Eventually, we all got to see all the animals, and go on a tractor ride.


Then came a wheelbarrow and a trip to the pumpkin patch. Of course, both kids wanted to get all the biggest pumpkins they could hardly lift. Eventually, we convinced them to find good solid round pumpkins that would make a good face for when we carved them.
"Are we going to carve pumpkins, Daddy?"
"Yes, Isabelle."
jumping up and down and smiling lots...
"Well, you guys will draw the faces, but I'll probably do the only carving."
"Oh. Can we get this big white one?" says Isabelle.
"Put it in the wheelbarrow." I say.
We ended up not getting it, but I did get to haul it around the farm for a while first.

Then Isabelle saw one of those little tiny pumpkins, about the size of an orange. And she had to have it. So each of them got one of those little pumpkins. (pumpkinettes? pumpkinis? pumplet?) And we got two Mommy and Daddy sized ones, and two David and Isabelle sized ones.

Carving will commence later tonite.

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