Leeds Pumpkin Farm

The last weekend in October, Eliana, William and I met up with some of Eliana's friends from her old daycare.  She seriously talks about Jack and Jake all the time!  Sometimes I think she has an imaginary friend named Jack, because Eliana is always talking about what she did with Jack even though this is the first time she has seen him since her last day at daycare.  She was sooo excited to see them.  She ran up and gave them both hugs and the three of them immediately started chasing each other and giggling.  Eliana leaving daycare was one of the hardest parts about leaving my old job, just because she had made such good friends there.  I am glad we had this chance to see them.  Plus we met at an awesome place called Leeds Pumpkin farm!  They had giant slides, hay mounds, zip lines, a petting zoo, a hay ride, and Eliana's favorite: a banana bus ride.  Plus there was plenty of stuff to buy like pumpkins and caramel corn and pie.  We will definitely be going back there next year.  Actually, Eliana often asks to do the banana ride when I ask her what she wants to do for the day.  Sorry, that ride is closed for the season!

The three musketeers: Jack, Eliana, and Jake.

The kids did a great job of sticking together.  They are all holding hands with Jake's mom Rachel on the left and Jack's mom Angie on the right.  It was the most perfect day in October to go.

Playing in the corn bin.  It is like a giant sandbox but with corn instead of sand.  The kids loved it.

The corn bin also had lots of trucks and buckets to play with too.

One of the many giant slides.  Eliana really liked going down the slides with her friends.  But both boys left soon after this, leaving just her with William and me.  She wanted to go down the slide again, but without her two friends leading her, Eliana got scared at the top and started crying.  That was the end of the slides.

So we took a break and ate some pie!

William wanted some too, but I said no.  :)

The banana bus ride!  The first time she rode this, she was too scared to ride by herself.  So believe it or not, I squeezed into one of those barrels with her while wearing William in the Ergo.  It was tight, but we did it!  Then Eliana realize how fun the ride was and didn't need me to ride with her anymore.  She rode it at least four times!

The banana bus traveling by the pond.

She has grown a little since this picture last year.

William actually had two Halloween costumes.  My mom gave his a skeleton one, but Eliana insisted that he be a skunk for trick or treating, so I had him wear the skeleton costume to the farm.  Eliana was not exactly excited about the photos that I wanted to take.

But then when I started taking pictures of William by himself, Eliana stopped playing on the hay and jumped right in.

We had a great day!