Ok, this year was WAY more fun. It was, once again, a beautiful fall day. Cool and crisp, but dry and sunny. It was the perfect day for hitting the local Fall Farm Festivities; we chose Trax Farms again, since it's quite handy.
We got there a few minutes before the "festival" opened, so we wanders around the store part of Trax, and Bean and I took a quick swing on some of their furniture:
We've been reading a lot of fall books and the kids are good at spotting PUMPKINS and other fall goodies, so they were pretty excited when they saw the 5 feet tall stacks of pumpkins all over the place!
Colin made the common mistake of falling for the first pumpkin he saw...but we talked him out of it.
Gillian just dove right in....or up...
It didn't take long for the kiddos to make choices (aided by Mama) in the pumpkin department. We loaded them on a cart, and apparently that made the pumpkins even more fun!
At this point, our good friends Miss Laura, Ian, and Julia showed up! And, they brought Mr. Kenny with them! (Mr. Kenny and Mr. Michael are most often at work when the double sets of twins get together, so it was fun to have the Daddies there too!) So, first we tried the pumpkin, balloon blowing house thing, but that was a big failure with the two year old crowd. We moved on to the pirate ship playhouse and it was much more well received!
From the pirate ship, Colin spied the Rainbow Express train and he NEEDED TO RIDE IT. NOW. Colin is having a major love affair with trains right now, so how could we say no?
Colin got the green car and a chat with the engineer!
Gillian had the red car, and enjoyed every minute of her ride, as usual!
CHOO CHOO!
Next we hit up the "Corn Crib." It was a 3 sided room filled with shucked field corn about 6 inches deep. It was, honestly, the BIGGEST success of the day (minus the choo choo). The kiddos spent at least 30 minutes in there! Ian and Julia too!
After the corn crib, we went to the petting zoo. The kids really enjoyed that too. Colin really liked the piglets and Gillian really liked the black sheep. But, the goats were too busy trying to eat Michael's pants for him to take any pictures!!
We had one more try at the bounce house, and Gillian had some fun, but Colin would have nothing to do with it. I think he was tired and hungry at that point. So, we headed home. And the kids slept for three hours straight! Awesome.
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Sounds like you guys had a great day! The pictures from the "corn crib" are priceless. You can feel their joy!
That place looks amazing! How FUN! Love the corn crib...and a petting zoo? So neat! Great photos as always:)...Lori
OMG, I thought the train pictures were sooooo adorable -- and the Corn Crib photos literally had me in tears!!!!! They are having so much fun in there!!! And WHY? ITS JUST CORN!!!!!
Ah, the beauty of childhood. Gotta love it.
Also, the picture of you and Gillian is so beautiful. You two with your peaches-n-cream complexions and strawberry blonde and cornsilk hair.... you are a cornucopia of pretty!
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