I met up with them, got my four assigned children (Ellie, one of her best girlfriends, and two boys besties who were mostly well behaved) and off we went. They took us on a hayride around the property, we got to visit the petting zoo area full of friendly but smelly goats and sheep, we wandered through the corn maze, and then they got to pick vegetables. They were limited to a handful of cilantro, four radishes, four onions and four carrots. Ellie managed to pull two carrots that had four or more little legs growing off of them, so she definitely got her carrot's worth! Then the kids went to a little pumpkin patch where they were allowed to pick one pumpkin, provided they could carry it themselves. There were also tractors to climb on and hay bales to jump over. We ended up having an early lunch, having done all of the activities, and then waiting a half hour for another class to finish up. Poor kids - it was over 90 today and the farm didn't have running water, so no way to fill water bottles. I'm sure it was a very sweaty bus ride back to school!
Not to be outdone, Adam and I spent a really nice morning at Pretend City last week with some of the girls from MOPS. We've only been there once before, and it was on a holiday weekend when Ellie was a toddler and Adam was a baby - it's much more fun on a quiet morning with a great four year old guy. His favorite parts were playing with the giant foam blocks - he built us a bed and we took pretend naps - and farming. They had trees painted on the wall and little bins for fruit, and he loved picking them all, planting them in the fake dirt and then helping me put them back again.
And of course, fought some fires, drove some cars and was a muscle man.
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