Pumpkin Patch

Hurray!  I've finally caught up to the month of October.  Aren't you all proud of me?  I sure am. After 6 months of silence, you have all enjoyed a plethora of postings from the Hills.  Amazing.

In October we traveled to a nearby farm and went to a pumpkin patch with Kallen.  He loved being there as you can tell from the great big grin on his face.  He just wanted to run all over the place, which you will find out later turned out to be a bad thing.

The first place he ran to was this big pile of hay for kids to climb and play on.  Once he reached the top, with some help from Mommy and Daddy, he started clapping his hands...he was so proud of himself.

Next we went on a tractor ride that took us out to the pumpkin patches.  Kallen was very impatient for the ride to start, but once it did, he loved looking out of the side of the wagon.  If you are observant, you will notice that the picture below isn't showing pumpkins in the background, but Christmas trees.  Silly I know, but we passed their Christmas Trees before we got to the pumpkins.  

Kallen was very impatient to get to the pumpkins.  Every time the tractor stopped, he would jump up and want to get out.  So when we finally reached our destination, he was very happy.

Kallen loved the pumpkin patch because it allowed him to wander everywhere.  Whenever he is in open spaces he loves to run and run.  It's something we've actually tried to work with him on, because he won't listen to us when we tell him to stay by us or to stop...which is scary if he is by a road or cars.  So we were trying to get him to stick around us at the pumpkin patch, which failed miserably.  In fact, we ended up without a pumpkin because we had to leave early. Kallen decided to have one of his classic meltdown moments which forced us to leave early with a crying 2-year-old.  Don't you just love those moments?  Have I ever mentioned how glad we are that Kallen is 2?  Because he is definitely beginning to develop classic 2-year-old behaviors.