Pumpkin Patch and Apple Picking

Jack wanted to make a pumpkin project with bright orange envelope paper Emmy brought home from work. So we're cutting out little orange pumpkins, and I said to him, Hey, let's get a piece of black construction paper and tape them onto it. He was into the idea, so he got the paper and I got the tape. Then I got distracted, I'm not sure why, probably Kate going upstairs or somesuch. I saw his finished project. I had figured we'd just tape the pumpkins on flat, and it would be like a picture to hang on a wall. Jack went the extra mile with tape on both sides of the little pumpkins, holding them upright, creating a 3-D pumpkin patch. I mean, wow.

Along those sames lines, I drew a picture of the Hulk for Jack tonight. I was then helping Kate draw a picture (she said to me, "Hul! Hul!" so I drew her a Hulk too, and then she scribbled over and around it), while Jack worked on the picture. I looked over and he'd added a web-covered Spider-Man to the picture. AND drawn his own Hulk on another piece of paper, which kind of looked like a much cuter version of mine. It was neat.

We went apple picking today. Kate wanted to have an apple in each hand throughout. She kept eating them and then dropping one and wanting to pick it up, and then dropping the other one, and getting another apple...we went through a lot of apples.

After the apple picking we went to the petting zoo area, where you could feed deer and sheep and such corn. At first neither Jack nor Kate wanted to let the animals eat out of their hand. Jack kind of put it on the edge of the fence, dropping a lot of it on the ground. Kate threw corn in the general direction of the animals. "Here! Here, sheep! Here!" We ultimately got Jack to let them eat out of his hand. He laughed as they ate it. Kate ran toward the fence to yell at the animals, then ran back when they came over. At the sheep area, she climbed up the fence and stood a couple of feet off the ground. "Hi!" she said. "Hi, sheep!"

We got the kids apple juice in little plastic things shaped like apples. They drained them greedily. Jack ate like he hadn't eaten in days, not just eating the ice cream on the apple crisp but the whole thing. Apple picking is hungry work.

After dinner we ate candy apples. Jack just wanted to lick the candy off the apple. Kate just wanted the apple part.

It was messy.