Monday, September 29, 2008

Fall Fun

We headed out to Cox Farms for a day of fall fun with MOPS. The kids had a great time. Here we are going down the big slide. Wesley got off to a faster start than Lydia (who was sitting on my lap) and I did but we passed him.
Both kids loved "driving" this little train. They also both pushed themselves in front of other kids to have a turn. That is something we have to address - waiting for turns.

Lydia went down a lot of slides on my lap. When she went down by herself in sitting, she spread her feet and one foot would always get caught which would spin her around and flip her over. She did much better on her belly, feet first.

Here is Wesley on the valcano slide. The next time down he lost his hat but we were able to get it back.

Wesley and Lydia did not like feeding these goats. As soon as we walked in the pen, the goats took wesley's cake cone of food. This scared him and made him cry which made Lydia cry. The nice lady who sold us the cone gave us another for free (without me asking) but I ended up feeding the goats.
Wesley climbed this obstacle course to get to a rope swing. The yellow ladder on the left wasn't very high and he easily climbed it but he did need a little help to get over the top of the blue ladder.

Here he is on the rope swing.

Wesley was very proud of himself for climbing up on the hay bales.


Here is a close-up of Lydia on a small slide. She got such a great workout just walking around the farm and up the hills to the slides. On one of her numerous falls she got a boo-boo on her knee.

Lydia and I are on the now waterless water slide.

At some point Wesley started asking for a hotdog. I packed a lunch to take with us and he ate it fairly well, but later he wanted a hotdog. So when it was around 4:00, I said to him, "If you get in the stroller so we can leave, I will get you a hotdog." He climbed right in without protesting leaving.
Here they are with their hotdogs and the pumpkins we got. The price of admission includes a small pumpkin. The kids really had a great day. We were there for over 5 1/2 hours. Lydia has never gone so long in the day without a nap. She fell asleep within a few minutes of the car moving. It took Wesley about ten minutes.

3 comments:

Becca said...

I've heard about that place, but never saw any photos. It looks like a lot of fun, and we'll have to check it out eventually. So many places to go, so many things to do, so little time... How do you do it, Renee??

Anonymous said...

Awww...looks like so much fun!

Naturally Caffeinated Family said...

Oh Hubby and I have been talking about wanting to go to Cox farms! I am super impressed that you went down the slides (and took Lydia too) that is great! And the pic as you were going down, hilarious! And the cone story too, ha!