More Fall Fun

Well, it was a chillier, wetter Sunday yesterday, but we still had fun! I didn't have the camera with me, so no pictures for this one.

First, we went to Stone's Apple Barn and picked some apples. Did you know that a paper grocery bag will hold over 26 pounds of apples? Poor Richard, he had to carry it. I had Evie on in my backpack carrier. She had fun pointing to the apples that she wanted, and then handing them to Daddy for me after I picked them. Emily did a good job, too. She found some trees that were just loaded with apples. We found one really beautiful, shiny red apple. Em decided that it was the Snow White apple, but she ate it anyway! The old man there running the operation gave Richard advice on our apple tree in the backyard. We thought that was nice of him. After we were done, we also walked over to see the chickens and other animals. Evie kept signing "dog". She did pet a goat on the nose, and I fed Emily's apple core to the donkey. (and we made Emily recite "we don't hug the donkeys!" and she rolled her eyes at us!)

On our way home from Stone's, we saw an advertisement for Happy Hollow pick-your-own pumpkin farm. We were going to get three pumpkins - one for each girl, and one to make pumpkin bread with. Well, we ended up with 5 pumpkins, at a whopping 55 pounds! Two big ones for the girls, one little one to cook, and two tiny ones that Evie picked up and signed that she wanted. She got to ride in the wagon with the pumpkins, and also run along the paths in the pumpkin patch. At the shop where you pay for the pumpkins, they have some of those big, fan-inflated Halloween decorations. The biggest one was of Frankenstein. We all laughed when Evie pointed at it and made the "daddy" sign! Before we left, Emily and Evie got to feed the goats some bread, and watch the farmer feed them some of the cracked pumpkins. I never would have guessed that goats like pumpkins so much!