Family Home Evening - Corn Maze

We wanted to take Rachel out to Linder Farms and see how she would do.  We got there and let her get in the corn box 1st thing.  Probably a bad decision since she wanted to just stay there.  Oh well we had to let her do something while we waited for the tractors to come around to take us to the pumpkin patches.

 Cheese!!!

 Walking in the corn box.

 Trying to get on the hay ride.

 Hanging out on the hay ride.  After the first stop she wanted to get off.  We had to wait till the fourth stop and she was about to come unglued because she wanted to be able to sit on the edge and we were trying to keep her up on the hay bales.

 Scott & Rachel

 See I am actually there.  I know I mostly take the pictures so I'm not in very many of them.

 An almost good family picture.

 I just love Scott's look on this one.  Not to enthused by my picture taking.

 You can see the joy in her face because we were actually moving by this point.

 Look at all these pumpkins.  Which one do I want?

 This looks like a good pumpkin.  Yeah she picked up a bunch of pumpkins but she didn't want any of them.  So we ended up not picking a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch.  Maybe next year.

One of the activities that was actually free at Linder's was a petting zoo.  We let Rachel go in to see the animals.  She was going from one to the other so fast.  I was shocked to see the baby animals that they had there.  They had the following babies there to pet: buffalo, sheep, donkey, zebra, kangaroo and goat.

 The buffalo

 The Kangaroo

She was so cute she would go up and be so excited about seeing them but she really didn't want to pet any of them.

 Standing at the tire playground.

 In this picture she is in the hay bale maze and not liking it at all.  She's trying to beg me to take her over the top of the hay bales.  Scott walked around and showed her how to get out and she was so happy.

 We ended up doing the field trip maze since she got so agitated in the hay bale maze.  She started out okay but by the first turn she was like okay let's go back.  We just kept talking to her and showing her which way to go.  She was crying off and on "I want out of the corn maze."  We made it out and she ran in front of us and we heard her say "Yeah we are out of the corn maze!"  Scott and I laughed so hard.  So of course back to the corn box is where we went.  We let her play there for about thirty more minutes. 

More playing in the corn box.

Just playing with the corn in my hands.

Army crawling like the other kids.  She was doing angels in the corn but every time I tried to take that she would roll over and not let me get that picture of her.

It was so cold out there tonight that finally around 7:30 I was like okay I can't handle it any longer.  My toes were frozen and the hot chocolate didn't help much.  So you know of course Rachel was mad when we took her out of the toy box but once we got in the car and got her warmed up she realized it was a good thing to be going home.  We got home and Scott took off Rachel's shoes and they were completely filled with corn and sunflower seeds from the corn box.  I wonder how often they refill the box if every kid who gets in there gets that much in their shoes.  All in all it was a fun night and we will try again next year with her.