Pumpkin Patch

Today we went to the pumpkin patch. We did that last year and you can read about it here. This year was so different than last year. She wouldn't look at the camera, but loved looking at and picking the pumpkins. When we got out to the patch she went from pumpkin to pumpkin trying to pick them up. She finally found one that she could pick up and she carried that one around for awhile. We did not let her buy it because it was half green and not hard.

When we got back to where we had to buy the pumpkins we let her try some apple cider. She loved the apple cider and would have drank the whole glass if we would have let her.

It was hard to get her back to the car because we had bought 4 pumpkins and so Chris was carrying two and I had two. This left no hands for Alyssa and so we had to keep calling her name and encouraging her to walk. If we were not talking to her she would just stop and look around. Finally I sent Chris to the car and then asked him to come back and help with her. This worked the best and we were most of the way to the car by the time he came back.

Alyssa had a great time and it was fun watching her take it all in. She had a very serious face every time the camera came out, but when it was put away we had a lot of smiles.