Saturday, September 29th was the annual Pumpkin Festival at Green Haven. Jay had to work that day, so Paxton and I joined Jackie, Craig, Alexander, Cristy, Mark and Carter for a few hours of whirlwind fun. It was my first pumpkin festival and I learned a lesson rather quickly ... be there right at 10 am if you don't want to wait in line for hours for things. We left to come home between 11:30 and 12 and there were a ridiculous amount of people there. I can't imagine just arriving there at that time since I'm really one of the least patient people on the planet and would not have waited for an hour for Paxton to take 5 minutes in the petting zoo and announce that he was "Done."
Anyway, Paxton and I arrived shortly after 10 and joined the Days for some hot dogs and french fries while we waited for the Burris family. We picked an excellent location to eat since the balloon animal guy showed up just as we were finishing so we only had to wait for about 5 minutes. Paxton and Alexander both picked dogs for their animals (and by Paxton and Alexander I mean me and Jackie). They were super cute and came complete with leashes since we couldn't have "wild animals like that running around" according to Balloon Animal Guy.
We decided that we would try yet again to get a picture of the 3 boys together. We keep telling ourselves that eventually they will cooperate and we will have a great picture to cherish for years to come ... this was not that day.
Well, at least none of them were crying, even if we couldn't get them all looking at the camera and smiling.
From the epic failure that was "Photo Booth September 2012" we headed over to the petting zoo. Cristy had already been through so she and Jackie stood in line for the wagon ride while Craig, Mark and I took the boys through. I even splurged and bought an ice cream come full of grain for Paxton to feed the animals for $1. He was so grateful to me for allowing him to have this fantastic experience that he promptly dumped the contents on the ground before we even got in the animals' pen. And then he proceeded to try to eat the ice cream come himself. *Give me strength!!!* Paxton did really well and wasn't scared of any of the animals; he petted all of them: sheep, goats, calf, donkey, pony, even the potbellied pig! He was pretty interested in the bunnies, but there were a lot of little girls holding them and not interested in sharing. And we were out of the pen in like 10 minutes flat. *Cute side note: Paxton was telling Auntie Kiz about petting the animals a few days later and informed her that "the sleeps say 'Aaaaaaaa." Translation: the sheeps say Baaaaaa."*
After the petting zoo we rejoined Cristy and Jackie to wait for the wagon ride. However, between the animal pen and the lineup, Paxton's balloon dog had a tragic accident. It threw itself in front of an oncoming stroller to save Paxton from being run down by the careless on comer (like seriously, the place was crawling with children. Maybe you should watch where you're going since you almost ran over my not-so-small kid.) Poor balloon dog, it wasn't pretty and took about 15 minutes for the air to slowly leak from its body. Paxton kept asking me to fix it and I had to keep explaining that Mommy couldn't fix it. I'm fairly certain he's going to be scarred for life now since, as I mentioned before, I was not going to stand in line for an hour to get another balloon animal. Anyway, finally it was our turn to climb aboard the magnificent Clydesdale-drawn wagon for our fantastic 5-minute journey around the field.
After the wagon ride, it was getting close to everyone's nap times but we let the boys run around like crazies for a while first.
Jackie was trying to teach them how to play "Ring Around the Rosie" but it didn't work out so well. Alexander was just a big fan of the "fall down" part, but we all had lots of fun laughing at them.
Anyway, Paxton and I arrived shortly after 10 and joined the Days for some hot dogs and french fries while we waited for the Burris family. We picked an excellent location to eat since the balloon animal guy showed up just as we were finishing so we only had to wait for about 5 minutes. Paxton and Alexander both picked dogs for their animals (and by Paxton and Alexander I mean me and Jackie). They were super cute and came complete with leashes since we couldn't have "wild animals like that running around" according to Balloon Animal Guy.
We decided that we would try yet again to get a picture of the 3 boys together. We keep telling ourselves that eventually they will cooperate and we will have a great picture to cherish for years to come ... this was not that day.
And this was the winner out of the ones that I got.
From the epic failure that was "Photo Booth September 2012" we headed over to the petting zoo. Cristy had already been through so she and Jackie stood in line for the wagon ride while Craig, Mark and I took the boys through. I even splurged and bought an ice cream come full of grain for Paxton to feed the animals for $1. He was so grateful to me for allowing him to have this fantastic experience that he promptly dumped the contents on the ground before we even got in the animals' pen. And then he proceeded to try to eat the ice cream come himself. *Give me strength!!!* Paxton did really well and wasn't scared of any of the animals; he petted all of them: sheep, goats, calf, donkey, pony, even the potbellied pig! He was pretty interested in the bunnies, but there were a lot of little girls holding them and not interested in sharing. And we were out of the pen in like 10 minutes flat. *Cute side note: Paxton was telling Auntie Kiz about petting the animals a few days later and informed her that "the sleeps say 'Aaaaaaaa." Translation: the sheeps say Baaaaaa."*
After the petting zoo we rejoined Cristy and Jackie to wait for the wagon ride. However, between the animal pen and the lineup, Paxton's balloon dog had a tragic accident. It threw itself in front of an oncoming stroller to save Paxton from being run down by the careless on comer (like seriously, the place was crawling with children. Maybe you should watch where you're going since you almost ran over my not-so-small kid.) Poor balloon dog, it wasn't pretty and took about 15 minutes for the air to slowly leak from its body. Paxton kept asking me to fix it and I had to keep explaining that Mommy couldn't fix it. I'm fairly certain he's going to be scarred for life now since, as I mentioned before, I was not going to stand in line for an hour to get another balloon animal. Anyway, finally it was our turn to climb aboard the magnificent Clydesdale-drawn wagon for our fantastic 5-minute journey around the field.
The wagon coming back to pick us up.
So excited!!!
Horse butts.
After the wagon ride, it was getting close to everyone's nap times but we let the boys run around like crazies for a while first.
Jackie was trying to teach them how to play "Ring Around the Rosie" but it didn't work out so well. Alexander was just a big fan of the "fall down" part, but we all had lots of fun laughing at them.
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