A Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

The buddies and I met some friends at Sweetberry Farm this morning, to take part in their Pumpkin Patch and enjoy their many other Fall activities. Many of you may remember our trek to this farm in late Spring for blackberry picking. Our trip today was just as much fun, if not more so. Four other moms from my multiples club joined us and collectively, we watched after 12 kids, aged 3 and under. An interesting side-note is that those 12 kids came from only 5 pregnancies.

Sweetberry Farm's fall activities include: scarecrow stuffing, a cornfield maze, pumpkin painting, hay rides, homemade pumpkin ice cream, and an informal petting zoo of goats, horses, donkeys and chickens. Our kids took part in the petting zoo and a few enjoyed some ice cream. The rest of the time was spent running around and discovering the many pumpkins and gourds.

Ace and Ben's favorite part of the day was playing in the boat filled with pie pumpkins. They also enjoyed an old truck, filled with more pie pumpkins. These two enjoy many different modes of transportation, especially when filled with pumpkins. Ace is really into colors now and enjoyed telling all his little friends that the pumpkins were "organge". Each boy got to pick out two pumpkins and both hugged them all the way home.