THE Pumpkin Patch

It's fall! And Olivia has quite the collection of leaves. I've been trying to explain to her what "fall" is for awhile but I quickly had to switch it to "autumn" because she thinks it is some sort of strange pain inflicting self torment type of game. But that's beside the point. Fall means you have to do FALL things, like going to the pumpkin patch or burning your tongue on hot cocoa even though it really isn't cold enough for hot cocoa.

The pumpkin patch is both dusty and awesome. Olivia calls pumpkins "punk-ins" and I think it is adorable.

It has these hokey (as in lame, not as in hokie the mascot of Virginia Tech as you might assume I would reference since I am in fact from the greatest state of them all: VIRGINIA) little cut outs all around that the kids are a little obsessed with:

Aren't they so cute poking their heads in the wrong way??

AND...
A rope to keep kids OUT of the perils of the patch. Olivia and Jimmy seriously spent 93% of our trip bouncing the rope up and down. Seriously. The entire trip.

And a mini fun house:

And a park:


And lollipops that are so huge you can't get them out of your mouth once you get them in:


And so naturally we had to take the frog back there:

Olivia super wanted to wear her costume to the pumpkin patch. She was the only child in a costume, minus a strawberry shortcake.

And the frog met some other animals.

Olivia was so excited to meet the animals, for instance the bunny. "HI BUNNY! I FROG!"

But even the FROG gets hot sometimes.

And then even hotter:

So despite the wardrobe change after she demanded to wear the frog, whatever, she still had a blast showing Kyle the patch. Can you call it just the patch? Is that a thing? Or does it make no sense?

On Saturdays they have inflatable fun. Olivia was dying to go down the slide but adults weren't allowed. We reluctantly let her venture over to the slide thinking there was NO way she could climb it by herself. She was EASILY the smallest child there. See for yourself:

And guess what? We didn't even end up with a pumpkin! We had to rush to get to Olivia's very first... well you'll see in the next post. I guess we'll have to go back!