Pumpkin Patch

Last night we took the girls to the pumpkin patch. We had no intentions of going, but Maddie came home from school and said she wanted to go. A little random, so they must have talked about it at school. Regardless, it was a great idea, and a great night to go!

We were disappointed last year with the one we went to, so we tried a new one this year. And the girls had a blast! It's more fun for younger children, which worked out perfect for us! We will definitely go back again!This is the first thing that caught Maddie's eye... the horse swing! She went on one of these up in Washington with her cousins Fia and Lisi, and remembered it! She told me all about it! This girl can remember EVERYTHING!This was like a huge wooden sandbox, only filled with corn kernels! The girls, and Mike, loved it! They were trying to bury each others feet! We had to keep Chloe's pacifier in her mouth after we caught her trying to eat a few!Maddie found some "friends" there... typical! She finds "friends" everywhere we go! She helped these two kids bury their mom.They had this fun corn cannon that shoots off corn on the cob. We weren't sure how it worked at first, because Mike tried one that wasn't working. So when I stuck a cob in a different one and pressed the button, the corn shot out making a loud sound and caught us all by surprise! Scared the crap out of Maddie (who does NOT like loud noises... go figure... I guess her own loudness doesn't bother her!) She freaked out! It was so fun though, so Mike wanted to give it a try... a couple times. Maddie sat with her ears covered the whole time. It didn't even phase Chloe. She was just happy to be walking around!They had a big corn maze, and then this little hay maze. Maddie really liked this one a lot! She told me it's like the maze on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!Here's the girls with a white chicken!We took a ride on the animal train. We have done this one before too, up in Washington with Fia & Lisi... and I was pregnant then too! This ride was SO bumpy, one I probably could have done without!Maddie is now worried that everything would be loud! I guess the tractor pulling us was too loud for her comfort! :)Maddie switched cars before we left... decided she wanted to be the "leader".Then we took a hay ride, which we had to keep telling Maddie over and over again that it really wasn't loud! She finally believed us and took her hands off her ears! What a crazy girl!
More on the hayride... another bumpy one I could have done without. But everyone else really liked it!This pig was HUGE! It looked kind of sad actually, and had these teeth that looked like they'd chew our hand right off! The big hardly opened his eyes, just laid there eating! So sad, really!

He isn't dead (maybe close to it... who knows?!), he really is sitting her chewing pieces of the pumpkin. I just happened to take a picture when his mouth was closed! :)Maddie really liked the little petting farm, her favorite was probably the rabbits.Feeding the goat....

Going down the big slide... her face was pretty freaked out coming down! She said she liked it, but one time was enough for her! She told me after, "That slide was so fun, but it freaked me out a little!" So funny! :)This was a blow up haunted house thing... I think! We didn't actually go in so I don't really know! It had a bunch of air blowing right in the beginning that Maddie didn't like. She decided she wanted to go eat at the food shack instead! Probably didn't help that she didn't have a nap that day, and then fell asleep on the way over to the pumpkin patch, so we had to wake her up when we got there!

Ha Ha Ha! :)