We have been taking breaks from working on home improvements to enjoy the fall. The trees here "peaked" last weekend, and have been beautiful (for this neck of the woods, anyway). We aren't talking Connecticut beautiful, or Virginia beautiful, but nice enough for the midwest. A couple of weeks ago we took a trip to one of our favorite local places--Weston, MO. Mr. Wonderful has many childhood memories of going to an apple orchard there, and picking apples, eating apple cider donuts and drinking apple cider slushies (and probably having a stomachache on the way home). We took Junior with us, and made an afternoon of it.
We bought mums and donuts at the apple orchard and made innocent bystanders take our photo, above.
Junior had a terrific time on an antique tractor...with his dad's help. When one is this wiggly, one never knows what may happen to one if left unattended on farm equipment.
As you can see, Junior's hair has gone from brown to blonde in the last couple of months. But I have a feeling he'll come back to the "dark side" like his mama--I was blonde when I was little too.
Then we took Junior to this massive playground downtown, before we hit up a wonderful little hole-in-the-wall for lunch. As usual, he enjoyed himself. :)
This past weekend we took Junior to Caroline's Country Cousins...a pumpkin patch in Liberty, MO. A.K.A., the middle of nowhere.
But it was SO MUCH FUN. For all of us. The place was huge, and booming. There were 60 acres of pumpkins that you were given a ride out to on a wagon. There was a train that was a replica of a train from the 1880's. (Junior loved riding on that, of course.) He got very excited, and very intense:
Mr. Wonderful and Junior, waiting for the train
Eyeing the goats. This was definitely an activity to do with daddy. Mama's afraid of goats.
My handsome little farmer. He wasn't too cooperative with photos at the time, so I just continued to snap away, hoping to catch a good one.
I never liked the fall very much before I had a little one. All it meant to me was that winter was coming up, which is the absolute worst season God decided to make, in my opinion. But everything this fall has been exciting, and interesting and just plain fun with Junior around. When they say children change your life it's true, but more importantly for me, they change your
perspective on life. And what a blessing that's been.
Have a wonderful Autumn season!
