I know, it's hard to tell if there is any attitude in this group.
I was going to cut Em off from the stickers when she said, "No Mom, I'm making an 'E'!" Good girl! Nevermind the instructions, you know your letters!
We also got to feed the goats...
And ride the horses...
And Em even made a new friend. They didn't talk much but they got to hang out for a while.
Then the youngest member has now turned one. She wasn't too sure about this at first, poor girl has been suffering from an intestinal bacterial infection for quite a while. They think they know what it is and she is on antibiotics now but please pray for her complete healing!
Yeah, she figured it out.
Next, it was off to the train ride to the pumpkin patch with our cousins. Em talked about it all week and was very excited to ride on the "twain"!
The scouts had games for the kids to play while they waited.
And that is J's latest adventure...in a 'boys will be boys' maneuver, which was explained to me in novel version by the little man himself, everyone was doing something they weren't supposed to be doing and the end result was his head and a couple of staples. :-) In good news, this was the very next day and he was doing well and seemed fine, minus the obvious disappointment of having to slow down for a few days! :(
Finally, the train!
The first time the conductor walked by, K tapped me on the shoulder and told me that "Santa just went by!" She had to have a picture.
When we arrived at the 'pumpking patch', we got off the train, picked out a pumpkin and decorated it. Managed to get a pic of both girls with tongues out.
B was cracking me up! He was across the table, but his facial expressions were killer! He would panic, then smile, then panic, serious, smile...
When I asked Auntie K to see if he would smile at me, this was what I got. LOL!!
Em's finished product. Yes, do you notice the crossing is happening in the other eye? That is her good eye (well, better). This has always been why they say they won't do surgery because she trades eyes, which means she still has vision in the weak eye. The thing is, this is the first time I have seen her use the weak eye in a long time. Ah! We need wisdom. I am taking her to one of the healing services we have at our church next weekend. Otherwise, in the next two months she will see the neurologist and opthamologist and they can duke it out (and probably just keep blaming each other).
The grounds here are actually a train museum and they are chalk full of old artifacts, most of which you can touch and climb on. Pretty neat. This is K playing in an area with functioning railroad signals.
On top of a train, they have a trolly that rides around the grounds. We sang the theme song to "Daniel Tiger's Neighbrhood" more than once that day! The bell was very cute and just like the show.
Finally a shot of the station and the trolly all in one.
The kid trolly. It is very kid-friendly. :-)
Inside an old trolly.
We finally left after K, the introvert, having reached her quota of people time, asked several times to go. So, I tore Em, the extrovert and having not the slightest inclination to go home, away from an old bus, which she was driving. Funny to have such opposites! Keeps us in balance, I guess. :-)
Well, happy, happy, joy, joy, and God bless!!
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