Today was Jordan's first ever trip to the pumpkin patch! The bus left half an hour late, and then we waited another half hour for all the activities to start, but he still had a blast!
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| On the bus |
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Cornerstone Kids' Ranch plans out the whole trip, breaks the kids into groups, and then sends them to different stations every 15 minutes or so. Our first activity was taking a hayride to the pumpkin patch! I didn't get any pictures of the hayride though; it was bumpy and cold and had started to drizzle. BUT, I did get lots of pictures of him picking out which pumpkin he wanted to take home! He was very indecisive...
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| "Which one of you little round orange things will be mine?" |
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| "THIS ONE!" |
He didn't understand that a pumpkin is not the same thing as a basketball and kept throwing it on the ground and saying, "Ball? Ball?" I'd say, "No honey, that's a pumpkin, not a ball," and he'd just look at me like I was an idiot.
Next they got to play on the bouncy houses. This was by far his favorite part! He was hilarious, bouncing all over the place, falling, face planting...
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| "OMG, Mom, best day EVER!" |
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| "I'm okay, I'm okay." |
He didn't want to leave the bouncy house :( We then watched a movie called the Pumpkin Circle (or something like that, I don't know). I've already seen this 15 minute video about pumpkins twice already with Ali, and I will be seeing it once more in a few weeks when her school goes again. It's not exactly the best video for a group of toddlers, though. Kids were crying and running all over the place. Jordan threw a small tantrum as well until I dug in my purse and found a pair of 3D glasses; he was fine after that. They cut the video short (thank goodness!) since our kids weren't at ALL interested and they just went outside and played on some hay bales.
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| "Oh Mama, I'm just so hungry... Please feed me." |
By this point the kids were all getting pretty cranky but we still had several stations to visit. We took them inside this giant barn-ish building where Jordan pushed around a tricycle for 15 minutes.
When it was time to move to a different station Jordan was ticked. He really has a weird obsession with pushing things with wheels. He screamed, kicked, and then bit me. He has never bit me before. Other people, yes. We've had to sign lots of incident reports at daycare from him biting his "friends," but this was the first time he took a chunk out of me. He got spanked and stuck in time out.
After kissing me and telling me he was "Wowwy," we got to go into the petting zoo area! Jordan wasn't too fond of the animals... they scared him. Can you blame him? Mean ole goats.
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| Watch out, you're about to receive an old fashioned headbutting. |
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| He didn't really want to get very close at first... |
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| But he finally got curious enough to pet the pony! |
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| And then he kissed it. |
After petting (and kissing) the animals, we applied a generous amount of germ gel to our hands (and Jordan's mouth...) and went down the slide 900 times. Mr. Independent wouldn't let me go with him. I mean, come on, all his friends were going down the slide without
their mommies so I couldn't make him look like a
baby in front of them.
After all that we were supposed to go on a mini train ride but by this point all the kids were cranky and crying. It was half an hour passed their usual lunch time so the teachers decided to head back to daycare for some food. Everyone was so exhausted; some of the kids fell asleep during the 5 minute ride back to the daycare. Not Jordan, though.
