Finally Catching Up: Vertuccio Farms November '11

 I had almost given up hope that I would get around to catching up on the posts. I thought about just skipping all the backlog stuff and going forward from the present... buuuuuut I just couldn't bring myself to skip the holidays. So here we go. 

In mid November we finally got around to using up the Groupon I had for Vertuccio Farms. Fun stuff I tell ya. Ethan had fun feeding the ducks.

 

And the lion statue in the garden was pretty exciting.

 

 Next we found our way through the hay maze. Katie was pretty proud of herself when she climbed the tower of tires.

Ethan really wanted to join her.

 After that we got to see just how strong Katie was.

 And Ethan was ecstatic that we were taking a ride on the cow "Cho-Cho."

 Big Sister thought it was pretty great that she got to sit and drive by herself.

 She smiled the whole time.

 So did Ethan. And then the ride ended. Oh wow. You would have thought the world was coming to an end.

 We tried to distract him by heading over to see more animals.

 Then, we made sure to take a silly pumpkin head picture.

And finally we posed for a picture with our newly acquired pumpkins. Later that month we made them into homemade puree. Yummmmm.

Pumpkins

 This year we thought we'd try a little something different.

 We painted K and E's pumpkins instead of carving them.

 It was so much fun!

 And later Mommy cleaned off the finger paint and made homemade pumpkin puree. Yum.

 Later that week we went to Grandma and Grandpa's to carve the two big pumpkins.

 Ethan squished the pumpkin guts in his hands one time and that was enough for him.

 After that he just wanted to point at it.

Katie had fun reaching all the way in and getting all of the stuff outta there. So cute.