Obligatory Pumpkin Patch Photos

Warning: I think my kids are insanely cute and I had a hard time paring down the pictures from our Sunday trip to the Laity Pumpkin Patch. And sorry, Mary, but your brother doesn't move as much and, thus, gets better photos taken of him. So that's why he got top billing.


Is it possible to get two kids looking and smiling at the camera at the same time? Hey Thomas! Look at Mummy. *chorus of ridiculous, embarrassing, attention-getting sounds*


Nope, not possible.

Mary hated it up there anyway.

We proceeded into an abyss of pumpkins. Mary thought it was neat. Wanting to get a portrait of my beautiful, graceful daughter with a pumpkin, I enticed her back with an irresistible request.

"Kiss the pumpkin, Mary!"


Well that didn't work. And shortly after, she tripped on a pumpkin vine and fell flat on her tummy.


Thomas became fussy. His malady was easily cured by a cookie.


But he wanted to know what his sister was doing.


She was trying to get lost in the pumpkin abyss again.

Hey, Mary, come sit with Thomas.


But Thomas is no fun.


She didn't fall. She wanted to lie down in the mud. Seriously.

Now when we first arrived we made the mistake of walking through the barn first, where Mary spotted a cow. Through most of the pumpkin patch she was inquiring "Cow? Cow?" We told her we should see the cow again later. She wasn't impressed when we walked through the mystery forest, which is really just a grove of trees with an amazing number of cut out wood figures from Disney, dinosaurs, fairy tales, zoo animals, and gnomes.









Thomas didn't really care about the mystery forest. He got another cookie. Finally we returned to the barn, where Mary parked herself in front of the cow.






"Cow!"


Eventually she was convinced to say byebye to the cow and visit the ducks, chickens, goats and sheep, too. The sheep were scary.

Yeah, I know, the pics suck in there.

On our way out, we looked for a better pumpkin as we discovered a hole in ours. Mary liked these little ones.


The photo needs to be cropped, really.

It was a good, tiring excursion that zonked the kids out for two good longs naps when we got home.