Pumpkin Patch Oh Ooooh Pumpkin Patch

Saturday afternoon we (Rod, Emma and I) went with Amy, Adam and Ella to Ganyard Farms.  This is quite a popular place for families to visit before Halloween and Thanksgiving.  It's a huge farm with a Pumpkin Patch, Corn Field, Cotton Field, Hay Rides and Farm animals.  Kids get to learn about the farm, feed the animals, pick pumpkins, corn and cotton, go on hayrides, get lost in a corn maze (you get the idea).

I think we went a little late in the month, as all the good pumpkins were taken and the pumpkin patch was all trampled on.  Quite a sweet experience for the older children....it would have been a whole lot easier and more interesting for Emma if she could walk around.  But she got to play with the pumpkins, rolling them singing Row Row, sit in the hay, and see the animals.
We would like to think she had a good time.  Building up to this trip Emma would get all excited seeing pumpkins at the grocery store, always wanting to touch them, however when we arrived at the farm, we sat her down amongst a bunch of pumpkins and the poor baby trembled and burst into tears.  Not sure if it was too overwhelming the amount of pumpkins, or possibly the huge poster of a painted pumpkin height chart??

I was anticipating cold weather and having to bundle Emma in her beanie, gloves and scarf, but the weather was pretty warm, only requiring a light sweater in the late afternoon.  Last year this time I'm pretty sure we were in winter woolies.

It was fun going out in the pumpkin patch and picking out the "perfect" pumpkin. 5 years in the US and this is the first time we've got a pumpkin for Halloween.  It's going to be fun going to places like this every year and see Emma's participation grow.



Our little pumpkin