Pumpkin Hunt
Originally uploaded by jaimeandjim.
How is it possible that I am the owner of a kid THIS cute??? Prepare for online journal spamming of flickr pics. I’m just uploading a batch now.
We went to Butterfield Acres this weekend for a good old fashioned Pumpkin hunt. (I don’t know that they are old fashioned at all, but it seems like the kind of thing farm kids would do growing up.) I had never heard of this thing they call “Pumpkin Hunt,” but when my daily mom-spam email came through a couple of weeks ago, it told me all about the fun me and my family would have if only we went to a pumpkin hunt(!) So we picked one of the last weekend slots available, as early in the season as possible, so as not to have to hunt for pumpkins in the snow, and we bundled ourselves up in fall garb and drove out to the farm on Saturday.
Before the hunt started, they corralled all the kids in this little playground. It was better than most playgrounds because there were these wooden frames hanging from ropes all over the place! There were also old tires to climb on and all sorts of other treasures to be found. The thing I really liked about the playground was that there was plenty of stuff for the kids to play with, and unlike normal city playgrounds, all the apparatuses (apparati??) stuff to play on was spread out, so you didn’t have a huge concentration of kids in the area where the “cool” toys were.
And because of the non-standard equipment, the kids are left to figure out how they want to play on certain things:
The slides were really cool too:
In the interest of time, I’m going to cut this short. We rode in a trailer that was pulled by a large tractor, which Jonah thought was the coolest thing ever. And then we got off at the pumpkin hunting destination and Jonah found his own pumpkin! Never before have I seen my baby with such a proud look on his face! He really felt like he accomplished something when he picked that pumpkin up off the ground!
After the hunting, we loaded ourselves back into the trailers and rode out to the decoration area. Jonah got to put macaroni and feathers and lentils all over his pumpkin! He had fun despite the fact that he didn’t really understand that the glue was an adhesive, and not paint. After the decorating, we pump little punkinhead on a rack to dry, waved bye-bye, assured jonah that we would come back for mister pumpkin, and went to go look at the animals.
(Those pictures are still waiting for me to finish. I promise – later this week they will be posted in flickr.)
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It’s been hard to post regularly, but I’m still here and I still intend on one day writing as frequently as I ever did… Which of course, isn’t all that much, but it’s more than what you’re getting now.
Today’s post is all about the things I love. If I were Oprah, this would be my favorite things episode and I would shower you all with free stuff. But I’m not, so you’ll just have to read about these things I love and remember that when you’re in the market for such things, how great I said they are.
My first plug for today is for Clever Canines, the best dog training company ever. Of course, I haven’t tried any others, and now that I’ve taken my dog to clever canines, there will never be a need for me to try others… But really, Tracie at Clever Canines is the best. It’s not like I had a problem dog, though, so I don’t have any crazy horror stories to share. I can tell you that before we went to Clever Canines, Missy was a very bad leashwalker. She would pull and we would get grouchy with her, and the whole dog walk would be such a chore. And then I had Jonah and there was no way I was going to walk her AND Jonah at the same time – she might pull me over! Jonah was a worn baby so if I fell over, I’d squish him.
Now she will walk with us both on and off a leash. She will sit or lie down and patiently wait until we are ready to go. This is her at the beach, watching kids run around and play. She does all sorts of things that I never expected my dog to do. We are currently working on beating chuck in the balance things on your head contest.
I truly believe that if you live in Calgary and you own a dog, you need Clever Canines.
Motherease diapers. We tried a few other diapers before these. First there were the prefolds with the bummi wraps. Not a fan of the bummis. Then there were the stacinator fleece wraps. (The stacinator wool wraps were excellent, but didn’t last long because Jim didn’t realize they are wool and not allowed in the washer. They totally feel like cotton jersey.) Really pretty but I never could get them to work the way they are supposed to. Then there were fuzzi bunz. We thought they were the perfect diaper for a few months… There really isn’t anything wrong with them – they just leaked more than I wanted them to. And then FINALLY when Jonah was 7 months or so, I ordered some motherease after reading several reviews on my crunchy mama list. Since receiving my order we have asked ourselves over and over again why we didn’t just use the motherease from the start.
Carol’s Hummous from recipeczaar. Topped with tomatoes, served on whole wheat pita.
There is more but this entry has been sitting in the drafts folder for over a month and it’s time to finish it off already.
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The Ranting is Over.
Missy went on her first escalator ride last week. It was confusing and hard and I tried not to get her little toes caught in the hole where the escalator and floor meet. In the end she did a great job, but this is an exercise worth repeating a few times. This and the Prince’s Island Park bridge that comes from Memorial.
Millions of pictures need to be posted. My goal is to put at least one up every night. Tonight I think I might be at three.
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