The pumpkin patch

Here it is nearly Halloween again. Time to dress the girls up in super cute costumes and get some great photographs.

Not only do I find myself in possession of some great shots this time of year, but this is also when Amelia finds herself exploring a farm and looking at mountains of fall produce. This year grandma and I took Amelia and her sister to a pumpkin farm on the central coast. The pumpkin patch was great. Not only did the place have literal mountains of huge pumpkins but they also had a large produce stand and animals in pens for the children to watch and feed. If you simply asked you could get a large bag of lettuce and presumably old broccoli to feed the goats and sheep.

Amelia spent a huge amount of time with the animals. She watched and fed the sheep and goats and watched the chickens and the one odd duck they kept. The roosters at this farm were very big and two of them were crowing, though I don't think Amelia actually ever saw them crow.

We were at the pumpkin patch a very long time Friday afternoon. Funny thing is, we never did buy a pumpkin and despite how tired we knew Amelia must have been (having no nap that day) she was asking to go to the park on our way home.

Lisa

As a funny side note - I mentioned before that Amelia is not very good about sharing toys with her little sister. I thought that she was turning over a new leaf last night when she asked me to replace the toys that belonged on the play gym Diana was using. But as soon as all of the toys had been replaced where Diana could see them and bat at them a bit Amelia tried to pick up the whole gym (and Diana along with it) so she could carry it off. I guess it's a good thing Amelia can't carry 13 pounds yet.