Pumpkin Patch take 2!

On Friday October 24th Jaden's preschool made their annual trek to Remlinger Farms. Yes, this is the exact same pumpkin patch that we went to a few weeks ago, but this time we didn't actually visit the patch we went to a mini amusement park of sorts in a different part of the farm, complete with a straw trampoline and maze, rides, animals, a train ride and a show! Todd took the day off of work again (he came last year too) so that he could help chaperone the field trip. Besides Jaden and Bryson we had a little girl that rode with us from Jaden's class named Anne. Jaden and Anne have known eachother since they were in swim diapers in waterbabies at the YMCA, they also play on the same soccer team this year. It was a beautiful, but chilly fall day when we arrived (my car's temp said that it wasn't yet 40 degrees). Fortunately, it did warm up throughout the morning, because last year it was extremely cold the entire time!

Wait a minute, it is October not Spring! Why did I have them pose behind some daisies?!?


Bryson and Todd checking out the straw trampoline.



In the maze, this was definitely a highlight for Jaden!




Next we moved on to the rides, most of which looked too scary to Anne, so Jaden didn't want to go on them either. But they did like this little horse ride.




Here's a video of Bryson taken while Jaden and Anne were enjoying the horse ride. Bryson pretty much calls all animals by the sound that they make. . . hence the use of the words "neigh neigh" in place of "horse". And I don't know who he thinks he is big 2 year old started referring to me as "Mom" this past week instead of "Mama"! You. Are. Growing. Up. Too. Fast. Stop. Now. Please!!! (Even Jaden still occasionally calls me Mama).


We walked around and then Bryson spotted this:

and , of course, got super excited so we had to go on the train ride!


During the train ride, Bryson amused us with imitating the scarecrows set up along the tracks (he is really into imitating anything and everything lately it is pretty funny!). Jaden pointed out some of the animals and worried if the bull was nice or not. The end of the ride we went through a dark tunnel, in it were blinking eyes. . . Bryson gets this pretend scared look and shakes his head (like he is quivering) when I mention the tunnel to him! At soccer practice later that evening Anne's mom, Jane, informed me that Anne told her at the end of the train ride they went through the tunnel of love (she has an older brother)!!! But I assured her mother that there was no hanky panky going on in that tunnel, LOL!

You can't visit a farm and not go on a tractor (at least if your name is Bryson you can't!).

Look at the total joy of a boy on his tractor, what you don't see is the screaming tantrum that ensued as boy had to let his big brother have a turn!


Jaden and his buddy Graison on the John Deere.

Another fabulous fall field trip:)