One of my favorite fall traditions is visiting the pumpkin patch. Although it’s too early to carve the pumpkins you have to visit your local patch early. This is so you can explore all the good pumpkins before they are all picked over and the only ones left are ones with rotten sides and bumps all over them. These two were super excited:
And it was this one’s first time:
The Isla of Faith pumpkin patch has it all. Hay rides, hay stacks to climb, a gigantic pumpkin the kids could crawl in and poke out of, scarecrows, and hundreds of pumpkins. First stop, hay stacks…
Isla is so brave and has no reservations what so ever. She climbed that mountain of hay all the way to the top and then proceeded to slide down it about twenty times at least.
Leo, on the other hand, is pretty reserved. He just stood and cheered his sister on.
Then it was time to play in the gigantic pumpkin…
Next year Palmer will be old enough to stick his head out of the second eye and this picture will be complete.
Next the kids were on a mission to find the two tiniest pumpkins in the patch. They succeeded and our second fall craft will be to paint them and add them to our centerpiece.
A tradition we picked up ever since Isla was 5 months old and during a visit to her first patch was to catch a family photo amidst the pumpkins. No one else was there to capture all 5 of us so we have two separate family photos.
This picture reminds me of how we announced our pregnancy just last year…(Tiny pumpkin 4 years old, tinier pumpkin 2 years old, tiniest pumpkin 5 months old)
Leo demonstrated to us what the “Jester” on Beach Blvd. looks like. The boy is TERRIFIED of this guy. There is a costume store right by our house and a man dressed in a Jester costume with a skeleton mask dances on the sidewalk advertising it. We are always driving by it and waving to him but one day John decided to pull into the parking lot to get a closer view. Well, the “Jester” decided to walk up to the car on Leo’s side and pressed his face against the window. Leo screamed bloody murder and John sped away. Leo’s never been the same and will be forever terrified of Halloween and all it represents. His impression of the Jester, however, is hilarious!
I swear Palmer is a very happy baby. We just had to drag him out to the patch during his morning nap and he was not having any of it.
Princess Isla and Little Leo were loving every minute of it though.
Happy Fall!!!
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