The Crying Pumpkin and Mother Nature's Farm

(Mommy got so excited about posting the Halloween pics that she almost forgot to post pumpkin carving and the pumpkin patch.) Katie was not so sure about reaching into the pumpkin. Even with encouragement from Mommy and Daddy.

She was, however, very excited that the pumpkin had a crying face like the one in her book "Five Little Pumpkins." Every time we read that story, she points to the sad pumpkin on each and every single page and says, "He cwy-ing." It cracks Mommy and Daddy up.

The day before Halloween Mommy decided that we MUST go to a pumpkin patch. This farm in Gilbert (that I literally went to 1 time in the 17 years that my family lived down the street from) seemed like a good choice. They have events for all the holidays and it's very reasonably priced... so we figured it'd be fun.

And then we walked in and Katie saw the bounce house. (Sigh.) Total meltdown. But we held strong and had some lunch instead. Eventually she came around and wanted to play in this rectangular "pool" of hay. Pretty cute.

Then there was the little house with a pumpkin and a pine cone. Very exciting!

And lets not forget the bull, the pig and her piglets, and the goats. Katie wanted to pet them SO BADLY, but they were eating and that made Mom and Dad a little nervous.

When she started to slow down and look a little warm, we ended the visit with a tractor/ hay ride and went to pick out a pumpkin. Lots of fun.

P.S. Ethan was is the baby bjorn carrier and I was the one with the camera, so no pictures of the little man. He did have fun watching everything and everyone, though. And he fell asleep on the hayride.