A lot has changed in a year. A WHOLE lot. Starting with the size of these two lil pumpkins:
We can hardly believe our eyes when we think about how much they have grown! We give God all the honor, praise, and glory due His name for the way He has sustained their lives and by His grace, allowed them to grow and develop so well over this past year!
We ventured back to a new pumpkin patch for our family this year after church on Sunday. We knew with them missing both their morning and afternoon nap, we might be in for it, but if you know anything about our parenting style, this probably doesn't surprise you :) So to Old Bakers Farm we went! Started out with a few rides on the mini tractors...took turns "driving" and then we headed to the..
Cotton Bounce (aka:trailer full of cotton to jump on!)
Maddie Grace loved it. Makenzie hated it. Usually the way it goes with our two :) Total opposite reactions! We should probably have been more sensitive to our daughter who was petrified but we couldn't stop laughing at the fact that she was trembling over some soft, white cotton! =)
After calming Baby B down, we attempted a family pic in front of the corn maze and then we made our way to see the hay bales! Usually this would be right up Makenzie's alley to climb all over them, but we think she was still recovering from the cotton bounce. =)
Love my sweet, slobbery kisses from my babies!!
It's not ever an easy task for us to get them smiling when they are rested and happy, much less tired and a tad fussy. Nevertheless, we gave it our best shot and this is what we got. Plus their reward was getting to go see all the animals in the petting zoo area afterwards. Maddie Grace is so content when she is looking at or touching animals. She truly loves them and seems so in awe of them. Makenzie likes them from a distance just fine, but if they move towards her, she quickly signs all done and reaches up to be held!
Next up: a quick little snack break to breathe new life into these famished, exhausted babes!
Clearly gave them the fuel they needed to muster up a tad more fun at the actual pumpkin patch. A first not only for them, but their mommy as well! We literally "picked" our own pumpkins! Such a neat experience and even better now that we're done carrying two toddlers, two pumpkins, two snack cups, blanket, loveys and pacis along with us! What were we thinking bringing anything but the babies on the hayride!?! That's a lot to carry!
The girls did great out there in the patch and enjoyed sitting on their pumpkins and sat perfectly still there and back on the hayride! Once we returned, the girls discovered their love for hay bale mazes! They LOVED sneaking up on each other and chasing one another through the "path!" Their squeals of delight were music to our ears and we so loved watching them have so much fun together out there!
We literally had to drag them out of the maze and back into their stroller to make it home before dinnertime! Our last stops were to munch on a few snacks: bbq sandwich, roasted corn, hot chocolate and chips! Mommy and Daddy were rather hungry for a late, late lunch and the girls enjoyed climbing all over the picnic tables and making new friends. They took one last ride on the tractors before we called it a day!
A day full of family memories were well enjoyed and well documented! AND before we could even exit the parking lot, we turned around to find this tired little pumpkin fast asleep!
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