Pre-Halloween Activities

Halloween at the zoo and "carving" pumpkins. Mommy made the fancy Mickey Mouse pumpkin and Daddy made the lame monster one.

Miscellaneous October/November

Train Ride/Pumpkin Patch, Take 2

The weekend after the corn maze/pumpkin patch disaster we had much better luck on the Mid-Continent Train Ride with Grandpa. They do regular train rides on the weekend and this particular weekend they had a special ride that stopped at a pumpkin patch. Okay, it turned out to not really be a "patch" but they did have a small selection of nice pumpkins to buy. Kayla loves trains so she was pretty exciting to be able to ride one (and I think Grandpa has a secret obsession with trains too).

Corn Maze Disaster

We took Kayla out to a farm for a corn maze, petting zoo, and pumpkin patch. It was actually pretty nice by our house so we put Kayla in a lighter weight jacket. Unfortunately by the time we got out to the farm it felt about 20 degrees colder, it was really windy, and we even got a few snow flurries. Kayla was miserable, presumably because she was freezing her butt off, and her parents felt pretty terrible for not dressing her warm enough. We did manage to get a few pictures and some yummy fudge though and Kayla was in a much better mood afterward when she was able to play with Emry in the warmth of grandma's house.