Pumpkin Patch

First of all, my apologies for the photo quality in this post and the previous Pumpkin Party post. I was a bad mommy and forgot my camera (horrors!) and had to use my BlackBerry instead. However, it didn't take bad photos for a phone.

With that out of the way .... there are two, yes two, pumpkin patches between Jacob's pre-school and the freeway on-ramp. So every day since about the first of October, he's been pointing out the pumpkins, the giant Tigger, the giant Pooh Bear, the ponies ("I like ponies, mommy." LOL), and anything else he can see out the window. Finally this week he said, "I want to go." So I used my mom's best line, "I don't have any cash with me, sorry. Maybe later." (Jacob's favorite word is "later". If not now, Later?) But that Jacob. He's too smart. When I picked him up from school the next day, he said, "You get money? I go to pumpkin patch?" Crap. I did tell him later. And if we didn't go today, we couldn't go at all. The next day was Halloween. So, off we went.

Here we are at the pumpkin patch! There was TONS to do. We stayed for over an hour and even then Jacob didn't want to leave. I had to bribe him with candy and even though that worked, he still cried.

They had those dorky little rides that you feed quarters into that for whatever reason, kids find irresistible. I'll bet I fed $2 into this one. (Crap. I just deleted the picture of him riding the other dorky ride. I'll upload it somewhere else. I haven't figured out how to place pictures where (( I )) want them in Blogger.)

Ok - the random picture up top of Jacob riding an elephant? Yeah, that's supposed to go here. Oh well. Even though that was the slowest, lamest ride in the universe, he thought it was "Dumbo" and therefore - fun. Ahhh, to be two.

The pumpkin patch had wagons available to pull pumpkins around in. Jacob thought that was great fun! He pulled this wagon ALL OVER the place. For a loooong time. Notice the bottle of juice in the wagon? There were some people from Honest Tea there taking pictures of kids with their products. My not-so-cooperative Jacob wouldn't hold the bottle while pulling the wagon, so they took a picture of the product in the wagon next to a pumpkin while Jacob pulled it. No baby modeling for us!

We also went for a pony ride. Well, he did, not me. It was expensive - $5! And of course he wanted to go twice. Sheesh. He did have a great time though, and wasn't scared at all. One time the horse whinnied & Jacob laughed and said, "My pony's making funny noises, mommy"!

But the most excitement came when one of the horses' pooped. Jacob talked about that for the rest of the ride. "My pony went poo mommy?" "We have to stop and change diaper?" (No, that pony went poo. Ponies don't wear diapers, they poo on the ground.) Then it was, "That pony went poo mommy?" The pony ride operators thought this exchange was pretty funny.

We did purchase a pumpkin that we plan to carve tonight. Stay tuned for pictures!