On the 18th I had the pleasure of going with Laney on a field trip with her daycare, Cannery Row Preschool. 2, 3, and 4-year olds on a field trip, well, that was a treat too tempting to pass up! :)
So, bright and early Monday morning, we loaded up and headed a couple miles west of Columbia to the Peach Tree Farm Pumpkin Patch. This place had everything! There were animals of all kids (goats, cats, donkeys, pigs, ducks, turkeys, chickens, even 2 giant catfish), a pumpkin patch (duh!), a hayride, a straw maze, a giant cornstalk horse… seriously, everything you could ask for at a pumpkin patch! We couldn’t have asked for better weather for an October day- sunny and 70!
And, as expected, getting 20-some 2-4 year olds around all that stuff without losing anyone was, well, kinda like herding cats! Personally, I think the pictures speak for themselves…
We started off with a group picture… (notice the kid making a break for it in the bottom right)
Laney was clearly not happy about the whole picture-taking thing. She wasn’t sure why she couldn’t stand by me.
Everyone’s attitudes improved when it was time to pet the first goats! Love the nametags on the back of their shirts! Best trick ever for keeping stickers on little kids!
Pretty soon it was time for the hayride, which was lots of fun (despite many warnings about sitting on bottoms and not throwing hay)!
The hayride dropped us off at the actual pumpkin patch, and the kids got to wander around and pick out a pumpkin to take home with them!
Laney showed off her pumpkin with a decidedly fake “CHEESE!” smile… in her defense, it was very bright!
Her new obsession is picking flowers, so, of course, she couldn’t resist the big yellow ones on the pumpkin vines. She couldn’t quite comprehend why picking all the flowers would mean no more pumpkins. Guess that science lesson will have to wait until later…
The real tragedy happened about 5 minutes later, when she stuck the hand holding the flower too close to the goat pen and a goat ate her flower! Talk about melt down! Luckily, one of the other moms picked her another one… which she promptly made me hold, and which wilted to death in my pocket, goobering up everything else in there!. Oh well… she enjoyed it while she had it! :)
Laney and her friend, Ali! Cute little sunflowers…
Petting a goat (clearly she forgave them for the flower incident)
Showing her true colors while riding the cornstalk horse!
Looking pitiful… although not as pitiful as the kid next to her. That kid’s gonna be an actor! :)
And, when it was time to leave, after some serious Purel action, it was time for one more attempt at a group shot…
Which Laney was still not happy about…
Despite the unhappiness during the group pictures, this really was a great time! Totally worth the $4 (and we got to take our pumpkins home with us), and highly recommended to my Columbia mommy friends!
2 comments:
That's actually kind of sweet that Laney wanted to stand by you:) And I seriously laughed outloud at the goat eating her flower - I bet she just melted into the ground wailing!!
My mom was there with my nephew the same day. He loved it.
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