Trip to the Pumpkin Patch



We headed to Broom's Orchard to get some pumpkins and meet up with some friends during October.  The Pumpkin Festival was going on, so they had bounce houses, a petting zoo, pony rides, etc. like they did for the Apple Festival.  We met Alaina, Lauren and Callie along with all of their kids.  Thankfully, Lou came with Alaina.  That ended up being a blessing as you'll be able to see later!

The girls and our babies!

Seriously....this is how every picture starts and ends.  Chaotic!!!

We got there right as they were opening and the bounce houses weren't even set up yet.  They were blowing them up as we walked up, so while we waited, we let the kids feed the goats and ride the ponies.

The kids couldn't wait to get on the bounce houses, so we headed over.  We had just got their shoes off and in the slide bounce house when the one beside the one we were on started collapsing!  The kids had to get off of the one that collapsed and they asked us to get off the slide one also.  A fuse had blown (or something) and they needed to get it blown back up.  There was a smaller one on the end that they said we could go to while they got the other one fixed.  So, we headed over to the smaller one.  I just want to say at this point that there was literally only two other groups of people there at this time in the morning.  A set of parents with a child and two grandparents with one or two other kids.  As we were watching the kids jump in the smaller bounce house, Callie looks at me and asks:  "Trista-Where's Lily?"  OMG!!!!  Talk about my heart dropping.  I had left Lily in the stroller at the other bounce house!  The bad part was that we were over at the smaller bounce house for a few minutes before Callie asked where Lily was, so poor Lily had been sitting in the stroller, by herself, for a good few minutes before I went back to get her. 

When I walked over to her, she was just sitting in the stroller looking around.  Not crying, nothing.  She was content and looking around.  There was no one around her.  It was just her stroller sitting in an open area all by herself.  I still get an upset stomach even thinking about it.  I felt like the world's worst mother!  How do you forget your baby?!  It really wasn't as bad as it sounds, since the bounce houses were all in a line and all three were maybe 20 yards from end to end, and there was maybe 10 other people at the entire orchard at the time, but I still left her over there by herself!  It was pretty much my first time taking both girls somewhere by myself and I forget Lily.   I said right then that I wasn't attempting to go anywhere by myself with them for awhile. 

So now that I've told on myself, I have to say that having Lou there was a lifesaver.  It would have been nice if he would have remembered Lily (like it was his responsibility), but he did help keep the kids rounded up the rest of the morning.  There was 6 kids (plus 2 if you count babies in bellies) with 4 mothers and then Lou.  It's a lot of work with that many kids under the age of 4! 

The kids ended up having an absolute blast at the bounce houses and didn't want to leave them.  It's amazing how they don't have any fear when it comes to some things.  They were going down all the slides and some even head first on their belly!

I love this picture of Madilynn!

We finally headed to the pumpkin patch.  Ainsley told me she wanted a little green pumpkin, so that's what she ended up getting.  Out of all the pumpkins in the patch, she wanted a green one!

 

All the kids were ready for naps by the time we got done.  Lily even fell asleep before we got to the car!

She found an apple along the way

Even though the morning started out a little rough for me, all the kids ended up having a good time and it ended up being a great morning at the pumpkin patch!