Sunday, October 14, 2007

Pumpkin Pickin'

We took Lilly to a local pumpkin patch this weekend. She was very excited to go look at pumpkins. With your admission ticket, you got to go on a covered hayride and pick out your own pumpkin, access to a fish and duck feeding pond, view goats and chickens, play on various playground equipment and mazes. Lilly enjoyed the tee-pee. We could not get her to leave it. Every time we would put her down, she would run over to the tee-pee.





Not included in the ticket price were the pony rides. We did not buy a ticket when we got in because we were not sure she would be interested in it. Well she was so I went and got her a ticket. As we were waiting in line, she picked out the white pony as hers and and very innocently told the little boy who was riding the white pony "Boy get off pony." Luckily when it was her turn, we were able to get the white pony. I had some reservations that Lilly would start to cry but she didn't. She had a great time on the pony. She didn't even cry when it was time to get off and we had her say "thank you" to the pony as we left.



We took a covered wagon hayride to the pumpkin patch. Lilly seemed more interested in the tractor and the skull on a man's t-shirt than the hayride on our way to the pumpkin patch. Once the wagon let us off, Lilly headed straight for the pumpkins. She promptly picked one up and threw it to the ground. The poor pumpkin split but Lilly did not seem to care - there were more pumpkins to pick up. She did pretty good picking them up until she discovered that some of them had stickers on them. From then on, all she wanted to do was pick the stickers off one pumpkin and put it on another. The pumpkin that Lilly picked out for herself ended up with 5 stickers in it.


After our pumpkins were picked out, we sat down under a tree so Lilly could eat her lunch. Each time a wagon would come by and drop people off, Lilly wanted to get on it. The ride back to the farm, Lilly actually sat down on the hay and had a look around.