What a fun day it was for four moms, two little girls, and five little boys to head to the farm. This is a kid's paradise... there are tractors to climb on, barns to explore, and geese to chase. Roosters and chickens run wild, pigs roll in the mud, cows get "moo-ed" at all day long, and there is plenty of dust and mud to make the cleanest of people come home and grab a bottle of "Shout" to get the stains out.
Aside from spending a good part of the morning looking for three of our sons that ran off while chasing the roosters through the farm, we really had a great time. The afternoon was filled with jumping in puddles, looking at animals, climbing trees, having a picnic, gathering sticks, and enjoying a tractor ride through the fields. It was an especially fun day for the kids at the farm because, before we went home, each child got to run through a corn maze and then pick out his or her very own pumpkin to take home from the pumpkin patch. Does it get any better than that?
I thought Josh and Jane would pick the biggest, roundest pumpkins they could find and I was already trying to figure out how I would get them, along with their monstrous pumpkins, all the way back to the car. But surprisingly, and gratefully, after careful consideration and deliberation... they each chose a very small pumpkin that they could carry, and one that they have cared for here at home ever since. They carry those pumpkins with them all through the house. Josh even wanted to sleep with his pumpkin last night. Hmmmm... who needs expensive toys and games when you can have a pumpkin?
Needless to say... it was a fun October day.
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