Beautiful Chaos: Pumpkin Patch

Two weekends ago, Mandy, Blake, Vera and I went to Brumbaugh Farms for the afternoon. Vera was really excited to go. We tried to go the weekend before, but it was really rainy and cool. Vera was disappointed. Believe it or not, it was really hot for our visit this year. It was sunny and 80 degrees. The heat did cause us to cut our trip a little shorter than it would've been if it were cooler. Mandy and I were dying in the heat, and we decided not to push our luck with the little ones. But, we were glad to have a nice day outside.

We checked out the shady Storybook Forest first. We had to keep convincing Vera to keep moving, because she loved all the toys.

We came upon a "castle" in the forest (not this one) and Vera wanted to play inside. There was a ladder climbing pretty high to a top look-out level. Vera was insistent on climbing the ladder. When she got to the look-out level, she was immediately scared and climbed right back down.

We walked out to the big slide. Mandy went down with Blake first. I was getting ready to go after them and Vera sat down in front of me. She let go and took off sliding down by herself. I hollered down the tunnel for Mandy to grab her. Vera wasn't too scared because as soon as her feet hit the ground, she took off to do it again. The second time she was super-careful to hang on to me because she didn't want to go by herself another time.

Vera was instantly attracted to the playground area. It was really hot at this point, and Mandy and I weren't interested in hanging around too long. We had to coax Vera out again.

I love this picture!

Blake, who is all boy, played in the dirt while Vera played in the house.

We checked out the farm animals, but it got short because Vera had to go potty. It was miserable (for more than one reason) taking her in the port-a-pot.