Orchard

A couple of weeks ago I took a personal day to go with Lucy on her school field trip to the apple orchard.  It was so fun and a way more beautiful way to spend a Wednesday than at the high school!

We started off the day with a hay ride on which we actually bumped around on hay.

 Miss Shireen and Miss Karla, the best preschool teachers ever.

 The hayride went to a gourd patch where each kid got a bag to pick 2 gourds.  We had fun picking out our favorites.  Guess what?  Jamie's picks are round like balls.

 Some Small Wonders friends l-r: Lucy, Luci Rae, Kavya, Lalo, and Bowen in front.  It looks like the kids are taking totally different pictures here.

 We got a cow milking explanation.

 And some time to try to milk the plastic cow.  It was hard!

 There were some animals to look at too.  Yes, Jamie climbed to the 3rd rung all by himself.  And was headed for the 4th when I snapped the picture and snagged him.

 The bouncy pillow!  This was a massive inflated piece of rubber that worked as a trampoline that wasn't level.  I bounced for a while with the kids and was tired at the end.  It was perfect for the major bounce that would send a kid flying 3 feet in the air (anyone else a fan of Wipeout?)

 After the preschool friends mostly went home we stayed with Karrie and co.  Bowen and Luci's favorite place was the burlap sack slide.  It was pretty steep and looked a bit terrifying from the top.  I went down with Jamie on my lap and ended up with a slide burn on both ankles because I pressed them against the sides of the slide as we went down the first big drop.

 Whee!  The drop didn't appear to phase the kids at all.

 Christmas photo?  I remember trying to get a good picture of Lucy at that age and wanted to start early on working on a great picture of the kids.  It won't be this one in the corn pool.

And a couple of short clips of our fun.  Check out the girl on the right on the bouncy pillow in pink on pink.  She shoves her friends down every time they get up.  Don't remember seeing this one while I was filming but it's pretty funny now.



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