Paisley's First Field Trip...

Wednesday I accompanied Paisley and all of her classmates on their first field trip to the Sweetwater Pumpkin Patch. I must say, I was really impressed with how organized and entertaining this field trip was, especially since their little customers happened to be 3yr olds. Paisley was soooo excited that morning! She's usually the difficult one to get out of bed, but not that morning, she was ready to go. Presleigh on the other hand was not happy at all. The fact that Mommy was getting to go on a fun little trip with sister and she was having to go to school instead, did not sit well. The car ride to school consisted of Presleigh saying " Mommy, I don't want you to go with sissy to the pumpkin patch" a good 10x. I tried to explain to her that in a couple of weeks, I'd be taking her on her first field trip as well, but that didn't stop her from throwing a full blown tantrum in the middle of the carpool line.Squalling as I pulled her out of the car, fighting me as I walked her to the door, and absolutely refusing to walk inside. The PreK Director had to take Presleigh from my arms and carry her up the stairs. It. was. awful. I felt terrible, but had to put it aside so I could be happy and excited for Paisley.

When we arrived at the pumpkin patch the kids lined up as we started our first activity for the day. Mrs Sheryl would be leading this part of the tour called the " I Spy Nature Walk "  As we walked through the woods on a little trail, Mrs Sheryl gave the little one's clues about the little animals they were supposed to find hiding around us. There were squirrels, skunks, deer, and even alligators. As we neared toward Sweetwater Creek there was a big teepee ahead where Chief Pumpkin was waiting for us. He told a quick little story to the kids and then handed out arrowheads to each of them. It was one of my favorite parts :)

Our second activity was to build a scarecrow. All of the children voted on whether they'd build a girl or a boy scarecrow and girl it was, they named her Fall. Paisley was not having any part of this. I don't know if she just wasn't interested or if she was a little scared, but she wanted nothing to do with it. She wouldn't help stuff, dress, or have her picture made with Fall, so no pics to share on this one :(


Next we were on to gold mining. The water was flowing through the trough and the pans were filled and ready to be sifted through. We grabbed a spot and began to mine our gems and gold. They had all kinds of little gems in the dirt for the kids to find. Paisley loved this part and would not leave one gem behind. Im pretty sure we left with at least 30 gems. They provided us a cute little bag and a card we could use to determine what gems we found. I have to admit, there were a few times when I thought to myself  " what if we really did find gold" " how cool would that be "

Lastly we were off to our hay ride, the part all the kids had been looking forward too. The tractor took us over to the pumpkin patch where the kiddos could pick 1 pumpkin of their choice. I found it neat that they actually had a pumpkin patch where the pumpkins were still attached to the vine. After they picked their pumpkins we walked over to feed the goats, chickens, pigs and rabbits. There was one rooster who was out of the pin, I'm assuming because he's considered friendly, but quite frankly, he made me a little nervous. I swear he was as large as a few of the kids and being that my brother Jonathan was attacked by a rooster around this age didn't help matters. I thought for sure he was going to peck someones eyes out, if he was hit in the face with a fist full of food one more time. The kids would run after him hollering " here chicken, chicken" and then chunk the corn at him as hard as they could. I laugh now as I type this, but it was no laughing matter at the time :)

The day ended with a picnic under the pavilion and some free play on the playground. Over all it was a great day and Paisley and I both had a great time. When we got home, Presleigh had arrived from school and was much more calm. I had the rest of the day off from work so we decided to bake some Halloween cupcakes and go out for Japanese! YUMMY!