2 Dogs, 2 Babies and Us!: The Pumpkin Patch-while it is still FALL

Since moving and starting to work just in the home, I have joined a MOPS group here. In October, we had a playdate field trip to Holiday Farms in South Carolina for a Pumpkin Day. Of course, being that it was Spencer's first time going to a pumpkin patch, she had to be dressed for the occassion. Her GREAT and FABULOUS aunt Bonnie (my aunt) had already given her a diva pumpkin tutu and I found her shirt and pants on sale and they were the last ones and they just happened to be in her size. So I figured it was meant for her to wear them! Thanks Aunt Bonnie-everyone there complemented her outfit!

It was a really neat little farm. As we drove up, the people had decorated an old satellite dish as a pumpkin and had enormous hay bales painted like pumpkins. For $5, we got to do all the games, rides, petting zoo (more on that later), a hay ride, and a pumpkin. Here is our pal Lincoln playing one of the games. It was two water pumps on each side and little rubber duckies would race each other as you pumped the water to the other side. Then two other people would pump them back to you. Spencer couldn't do this game yet but we enjoyed watching Lincoln.

They also had a "milk the cow" station. I helped Spencer do it the first time but she didn't seem that interested. Then we went to a rope the longhorn area and Spencer turned around and went back to the cow to milk it herself. I guess she wanted to do it by herself. The entire day she did not want me to hold her. She was all over and enjoying the wide open field of fun.

Spencer enjoyed the swing set A LOT!

Then it was time for our hay ride. You waited for your hay ride under this covered area that also housed a petting farm-complete with pigs, peacocks, donkey, piglets, ducks, baby ducks, chickens, rabbits, pony and a turkey. Spencer was given a At the Farm book for her birthday and we read it every day, multiple times a day. The book has pages of animals and Spencer easily found the dog that looks like Evee and says, "Dog". We have really been working on other animals and their sounds so she will not call everything a dog. She saw all the animals and only called the Donkey a dog. Then we saw this pig. She looked really sweet and she would kind of lick your fingers. Spencer wanted to pet her (don't worry I had hand sanitizer near) so she walked up and got ready to pet the pig. Right after the shutter closed for this image, the pig got excited and snorted really loud. Which sent Spencer backwards and she fell on her bottom and started crying. Needless to say, she didn't really go near the other animals just looked them from a distance. But I do think she knows what sound a pig makes now! :)

Then we finally got to ride on the hay ride to the field to get our pumpkins. By this time, Spencer was hungry and she really just enjoyed that she was getting to eat some Cheezits.