Pumpkin Patch!

Ben didn't have school on Friday and the weather was actually nice, so I decided to take the kids to a pumpkin patch farm! Ben had been to Goebbert's on a class field trip a few weeks ago and he got a big kick out of showing us around the place! And look who was there...Dora!!

And Tico...

They had a lot of fun trains and cars to climb on...

Cuties...

Ben was going Batty...

Then we went into the Animal Land and got to feed the giraffes, which was very fun!

Ben feeding them carrots...

Juju fed them too. Abbey didn't want to (I don't blame her), although she did enjoy watching it all.

Towards the end we just put the rest of the carrots on top and the giraffe came with his giant tongue and licked them up in a second - it was pretty funny to watch as you can tell from Ben's face!

Then we went on to watch the pumpkin eating dinosaur!

Bert and Ernie shared their pumpkins...

They had a Haunted House that Ben really wanted to go in, but I thought Abbey and Juju were too young for it so we couldn't go in. But he was very intrigued by it. It blew smoke and a witch popped out from the top window, at which point Ben ran up to get a better view and Abbey became very concerned for him..."Mommy, what about Ben?!? Come back Ben!!" Definitely a good decision not to bring her in there!

We found a giant's rocking chair!

And last but not least, it was time to pick out some pumpkins...Juju picked the biggest one she could hold!

And Ben also picked out the biggest one he could find and then proceeded to roll it out to the check-out line (he did not want my help).

It was a lot of fun! We came home with way too many pumpkins, especially considering we have several growing in our garden in the backyard, but I couldn't resist letting them each pick out some. That's what happens when Mommy takes them to the pumpkin farm while Daddy is working :)