Cooper had another chance to go to a pumpkin patch called Autumn in the Country with his Pre-Kindergarten class and Mrs. Kruse. It was a fun time for me and him to spend together. Kaylee got to go to her friend Carter's house and she was thrilled for that. So Cooper and I got to spend some one-on-one (with Dawson in the sling). Here we are on a hayride riding through the large pumpkin fields. Cooper noticed that the pumpkin vines looked strangely similar to our garden's pumpkin vines: brown and wilted leaves. He suggested that maybe this pumpkin patch has squash bugs too!! But why were their pumpkins still thriving, while ours had all died off? We have more to learn about growing pumpkins!!
At this farm, they make apple cider. The lady took 20 apples and put them into some kind of apple grinder with their cores and all. She asked the kids how much apple cider would come from 20 apples. The grinder would grind up the apples and then smash all the pieces up and any apple juice would be pressed out into a jar under the machine. Well, hardly any juice came from 20 apples. It must take a whole lot of apples to get much apple juice or cider at all!
They also had a fun maze made out of big hay bales. The kids took off into this maze while I waited outside of it. I heard squeals of laughter and running feet as I waited patiently for Cooper to find his way out. He loved this part!
The final part of the field trip was picking out pumpkins. Each child got to pick out any pumpkin they'd like. Cooper examined many pumpkins. He knew that the green ones would soon ripen and turn orange, because that's what happened to the green pumpkin we saved from our garden before the squash bugs got it. He decided on a perfectly round, perfectly orange small mini pumpkin as his choice. It was sweet to see him examine them and find the one that he thought was the absolute best!
What a fun time!!
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