You've got to be kidding me!

In the craziest case of sibling rivalry I've ever heard of, Keldon decided that if Janika had a bump on her head, then he needed one too...

Yes, one day after Janika got her goose egg, Keldon fell and got a matching goose egg!!!

Pumpkin Patch

Last Friday the kids and I had a great time visiting a local pumpkin patch as a field trip with Janika's preschool class.

We were running a little bit late (Mommy had to stop for coffee) so we were rushed right through the first stop and straight to the corn box.

Janika wasn't sure she wanted to get in at first, but after some coaxing she was tromping through the corn with everyone else.

At first Keldon didn't know what to think of this strange new experience, but soon he was playing around and trying to walk in it with the big kids!

Next stop on the tour was a climb up some hay bales, and down a slide into a hay maze.

So up Janika went climbing to the top of the stack and down into the maze.

She wandered her way through to the end - when you're 3 you don't feel obligated to stay on the ground... you can just as easily go over the bale 'walls' as around them!

The next highlight of the trip was visiting with the animals - Keldon got the first one right, it was a horse, but then everything after that was a horse too :o) Of course Janika enjoyed looking at the donkey, cows, pigs, bunnies, and kittens also.

Then we got to take a hay ride back down to the kids corral where the kids got some ice cream and got to pick out a small pumpkin to take home.

At this point the 'official' tour was over and we were free to get our lunch out of the car (which Janika had been very upset about leaving in the car when we first arrived) and sit down to eat.

After lunch we headed back up into the corral which we had had to skip earlier.

The kids had a great time riding the 'horses'

At this point disaster struck! I was showing Keldon the water pumps when I heard Janika start to cry. I headed over to see what had happened, and another mom told me that she had fallen. Okay, I've got this under control... uh-oh she also had an accident when she fell. Again, no problem, I brought a change of clothes, we just have to head back to the car to get them. At this point I try to get her to stop crying, you know, it's okay, we've got dry clothes, you don't need to cry, etc. but when I take a closer look at her - !!! OKAY go ahead and cry!!! Yikes!!! Off we go to find ice first, dry clothes second!

So, other than a nice goose egg on her head, the day was a success. We brought home 3 pumpkins, and both kids had lots of fun!