Last year when we took Forest to the pumpkin patch he was
barely walking.
Flash forward exactly 12 months and he was a wagon-pulling
machine.
Something about this experience really put into perspective how much
he was grown and changed in a year's time. Of course I’m sure I’ll always get sentimental when his birthday approaches and it feels like we are just
scratching months off of the calendar in the blink of an eye.
Anyhoos, he loved the pumpkin patch this year.
Basically I wasted $10 on tokens for the rides because all he wanted to do was
load and unload pumpkins into his wagon which was absolutely free
entertainment. I did convince him to leave his wagon post for a quick pony
ride. He was so big that he didn’t even need me to walk with him and went right
with the worker to ride ‘Candy’. He was so sweet and gentle with her.
(For comparison):
He really enjoyed riding the pony and waved to
his daddy and I everytime he made a round. Then it was back to work with the
wagon! We enticed him to go into the mini-hay maze since it began with a tunnel
(and the boy LOVES tunnels) but once he made it through the entrance he freaked
out that piles of hay were separating him from his beloved wagon so I had to go
rescue him.
I tried fruitlessly to get him to wait in line for the Cow Train
but he was not having it. He threw a full on ‘terrible-2’ tantrum trying to
claw his way over the partition ropes back to his pumpkin wagon. So for the
rest of our time there we ditched the rides and activities and just let him
contentedly lug his pumpkins around and he was as happy as a clam.
Unfortunately it was nearly impossible to get a posed shot of this kid. He deliberately
turns his back anytime he sees the camera and he absolutely never stops moving,
so attempting to get that perfect fall
photo op was an act in futility. This is the best I could get.
Amazing year!
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