Pumpkin Patch Time!

Friday afternoon after naps, we loaded up and headed down to Old Baker Farm for our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. I love going to the pumpkin patch...maybe moreso than the kids! :) Out of the pumpkin patches we've been to, we definitely like Old Baker Farm the best because it's not so commercial. It's just an old farm out in the country! Now, going on Friday afternoon was eye opening because they were preparing for the big weekend and I hated to see them just dropping pumpkins from a big box out in the field. I liked thinking that all the pumpkins were grown in that one patch! :) Anyway, there was barely anyone there on Friday afternoon, so for the most part it was great!

 

Both kids loved petting the goats, pig, and cow and seeing all the other animals they had there on the farm.

 

The obligatory photo sesh. We couldn't get both kids looking at the same time for anything!

 We would finally get Harrison to smile and then my usual poser (Hudson) wouldn't smile.

 I love this one!

I'm sure if we went on a Saturday that Hudson would not have been the only one climbing the hay bales!

So, the downside of going when we did was that we couldn't find the tractor to drive us out to the patch for anything. We waited forever and it just never showed up, so we ended up having to walk out there (which it is only like 20 yards, but Hudson was really looking forward to that little tractor ride!). We took some more obligatory photos while we waited!

 

We finally made it out to the patch and it got hot! The build up of going to find that perfect pumpkin is so much more fun than actually trying to find that perfect pumpkin! Once we were out there, we just tried to pick fast!

This was Hudson's first year to really get into it. He really wanted his own pumpkin that he could carry!

 We ended up with 3 pumpkins so it was a great trip!

After we picked out our pumpkins, I had the bright idea to do the corn maize. I thought it would be fun. What was I thinking with a 3 year old and a 1 year old at the witching hour?!?! I thought we were never going to get out of that thing! I just kept thinking of that woman a few years ago that had a baby in a stroller and got lost in the corn maize and called 911 to get out. I kept looking for ways we could get the stroller out through the corn. And, then of course when we are right in the middle of the whole thing, I hear the dreaded words, "Mommy, I have to poop." You'll be happy to know that we did not drop pants in the middle of the corn maize, although had it come down to it, we would have done it. Another perk of being the only ones there!

 We made it out!

It was actually fun looking back on it. Hudson had a great time being the "line leader" and leading us the wrong way every.single.time.

It was a fun afternoon in Harpersville!