Monday, October 11, 2004
Today, Hunter had the day off from Kindergarten and the weather was so chilly and Fallish, I decided to take the kids up to Silverman's Farm. They have a petting zoo there, pumpkin picking, hayrides, a cider mill and lots of yummy food--fresh cider, funnel-cake, candy apples, pumpkin pie etc. It was a lot of fun. All of the kids were a little nervous about feeding the animals but with a little encouragement they all managed to feed something, even if it was just throwing some corn at a duck or two. There was a bull there that kept sticking its tongue through the fence and kids were pouring cupfuls of corn onto his tongue. Then, he'd curl his tongue back into his mouth and munch it up. All you had to do was walk over to him and shake your cup of corn and he'd stick out his tongue. So we dumped a couple of cupfuls of corn onto his tongue, which seemed to thrill all of the kids.
After feeding the animals for awhile we journeyed over to the shop and got some fresh cider that they serve in little plastic apples and wandered over to the hayrides. Denver was so excited about riding behind a tractor it was hard to get him to wait for his turn. But, eventually we boarded the wagon and off we went to the top of the apple orchard where we could see, all the way from Easton, the Long Island Sound. The tractor driver zoomed down the hill at top speed and all three of the boys threw their hands in the air and screamed like they were on a roller coaster. We were covered in dust and all of our eyes were scratchy, but it was well worth it to see the view from the top of the hill--so many, many colors!
Then we picked up some pumpkin pie and funnel cake for lunch--I know, I know it's not very healthy--and the kids snarfed it down in a flash. Denver loves pumpkin pie and Hunter seemed to like the funnel cake. Noah, well. . . Noah just doesn't eat much. We stopped by the shop one more time to pick up some apples and then hurried home to get Denver a "ba-ba." While he had a nap, Hunter and Noah helped me make homemade applesauce from the apples we bought at the farm. It turned out delicious and made a great FHE treat.
For FHE, we talked about our Family Tree and tried to explain the family line to the kids. I'm not sure they grasped it, despite the pictures, and were more anxious to color on the gigantic sheet of paper we were using to draw our family tree on. So, we wrapped it up and let them color while we dished up the applesauce and then, put them to bed.
posted by Shana # 1:01 PM 
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