Deep Into Autumn Activities!

On Wednesday of this past week Claire and Chloe's Kindergarten class visited a local farm and pumpkin patch, The Book Family Farm, and their teacher kindly invited me to join them. I am so glad I did because it was extremely enjoyable and I learned several things that interested me a great deal. Of course Paula was there and Nonie was also able to attend for a portion of the tour and the girls were very excited and surprised to see her. The children were complimented by Mrs. Book for their behavior and for their eagerness to learn. I certainly credit their teacher because she prepares them well, expects the best and seems to get the best out of these children. She is amazing!

Here is Mrs. Book talking to the children at the beginning of the tour.....

 

 

It was a bit of a chilly morning, and some of the children didn't bring a jacket or sweater....

 

 



 

 

Meeting and greeting and feeding the some of the chickens.....

 

 

 

 

Each of the children were given the opportunity to "gather" an egg from the unique rolling hen house. They move it each day, set up the fence and as Mrs. Book told us, the chickens have a new salad bar to feast on each day. Pretty cool.....

 

 

 

 

Time to meet Cinnamon, one of the four milking cows of the group they call the Spice Girls....

 

 

 

 

 

Feeding the geese....

 

 

 

 

 

 

After meeting the pigs it was time to venture to the pumpkin patch and choose a pumpkin....

 



Chloe made a fairly quick choice. Claire was the last in the class to make her choice....kept going from one to the other trying hard to decide..... I didn't get a picture of Claire with her pumpkin. :(

 

 

Fun in the hay maze.............Claire and Chloe......

 

 

 

 

Class picture....



 

Claire takes a minute to take a picture with Grandma....thank you Nonie for suggesting it!

 

 

Claire meets some new friends along the path.....

 



 

 

 

On Thursday when I arrived at school I found out it was crazy hair day and boy was there some crazy hair in their classroom....

 

 

 

On Friday we picked up the three C's to spend the night with us. As it turned out, I invited them to stay another night, and so we had a super weekend of fun at our house. Aunt Suzie, Miss Cheryl, Miss Connie and Mr. Wayne all stopped by for visits. The three C's baked cupcakes which I find I don't have any pictures of, and we happily shared some of them with our friends. Also the highlight of the weekend was the old (and I mean old) aviculturist magazines that Papa had cleaned out. We bought some children's scissors, glue sticks,  and lots of construction paper and you would have thought we had given them a gold mine. Even Chris spent quite a bit of time do art projects. The girls cut and pasted bird pictures off and on for hours. Chris isn't in many pictures because he tended to be hanging out with Papa more time than not, I guess. 

 

 

 

 

 

This morning Chris had found his way into our big bed when I came out of the shower..... on Friday night he slept with Papa and I slept on his camping cot. He preferred that arrangement but we talked him into the cot last night. 

 

 

Shortly after, the girls joined the boys in the big bed.....

 

 

We also spent some time at the park, read books, and the three C's listened to one of Papa's famous stories about Wyatt Earp. They love those stories and beg him regularly to tell them more. Fortunately I usually can busy myself when he is storytelling...they are a bit much for me!

 

Loved our weekend and loved hearing Chris spontaneously say, "I love you, Grandma", several times during his visit. He is beyond precious!