Pumpkin Farm with Papa and LeeAnn

Today (I know, can you believe it? I'm posting REAL TIME) we got to go to the Pumpkin Farm. My Dad and his wife got to come for a quick trip to come and visit. What better place to go than the pumpkin farm? Of course, immediately upon arriving we headed to the line for the train.

 Ethan was so excited. Lincoln was a little unsure. And no matter how hard we tried, he wouldn't perform his little "toot, toot." (He even does the little arm motion -- so cute!)

 Lincoln still looks a little unsure about the train business. I'm pretty sure he enjoyed it, it was the sun business that he wasn't a fan of! It was 86 degrees today for crying out loud! Ethan wanted to wear costumes to the pumpkin farm and he was sweating like crazy by the time we were leaving. Lincoln had a little turtle outfit to wear, but it was just way too hot to put him in it!

  I seem to have the problem that I'm always dressing the boys way too warm because I get their outfits out of their drawers when I go upstairs to get Lincoln when he wakes up (usually at 6:30 or 6:45am -- sometimes earlier) and at that point, it looks like it's going to be cold. Then 8:30 comes around and the boys are already hot. Someday I'll figure it out though, right? Here we are headed to school!

 They have a bunch of Alpacas that you can feed while you're there too.

 They had a whole little family, even with a nursing baby! Or, whatever they call baby alpacas.

 This year they had a new contraption, called the "speeder feeder." You would put the feed into a little tin can, then ride the bike to rotate the wheel to move the can way up high on the wire then it would dump into a tube at the top that directed the food into a little feed bucket inside the pen. It was super cute. And Ethan said after we left that this was his favorite part of the trip!

 The babies were a little rough on the feeding, and kept trying to eat my thumb knuckles. Maybe that's why they had the new speeder feeder.

 Lincoln was absolutely enthralled with the feeding process. He kept signing "more" and "food."

 They also had this cute little pot-bellied pigs there, along with the goats!

 Lincoln was trying to snort at the pigs. He didn't tell me what he was saying to them.

 They had a cute little hay maze set up. It had holes poked through the top of the bales of hay, so when you went inside, the light would filter through the holes and Ethan commented that it looked like spider webs. After I told him it was the light, we had a hard time keeping him out of there. Maybe I shouldn't educate him all the time like that. "Yes, there are spider webs, you should stay next to me."

 We also learned all about chickens while we were there. This particular variety makes green and blue eggs!

 Then, if you remember from last year or the year before, or the year before, you will recall that I really enjoy all the cut-outs. It hasn't changed.

 How do we measure up this year?

 Ethan is telling Lincoln that he's that tall.

 Love this! McQueen can fly! Maybe in Cars 3, right?

 This was too cute! LeeAnn, I love what you've done with your hair! 

 I told Ethan to make a scared face. He might have thought I said, "scary."

 These boys were so good and excited even to pose with the pumpkins this year.

 Lincoln also spent a considerable time observing these corn stalks. 

Thank you Papa Rex and LeeAnn for such a fabulous (but quick) trip! We always love our visitors! And thank you ever so much for the ghost (white) pumpkin! I decided maybe we can just say that we got a pumpkin for baby girl as well. I'll let you know if the inside is white or not.