Kinder Park Fall Festival

Well Sandy has passed and we made it out all right. Power flashed but never went out and those damn gutter guards Hubs made us get last month really paid off. Being held up inside for the last few days has made me very stir crazy and if I never see another local weather report about how it's still raining again I will be a happy girl!

With all this time I can finally write about this years Kinder Park Fall Festival, last year Hubs and me were out of town so my parents brought Cole to this festival. I had been told it can get a bit crowded but the fact that it's a mile from our house we had to check it out. We headed over with Aunt Coco who was in town and The Butlers to have some fun! There is a ton of stuff to do but it's a bit overwhelming with so many people and a crazy running toddler. While I'm sure we will go back I don't think it will be every year, we have a soft spot for Homestead Gardens and in my opinion is much more enjoyable.

 

Cole with his Reese

 

 

Playing Games, Enjoying the Bouncy Slide and Painting Pumpkins

 

And of course our attempt at a family picture. Fail. I couldn't get the lollipop away from him.

 

 

Thankfully this past weekend we nailed the family picture and I have something for our future Christmas Cards!  

Pumpkin Painting

Since I'm home riding out the storm and seem to still have power I thought why not blog. OK so a few weeks ago we decorated are pumpkins. Like last year I wanted to get Cole involved but without putting a knife in his hands. We stuck strictly to paint and he really enjoyed it. The difference this year was he would ONLY use the brush to paint not his hands. Man are toddlers particular. For Cole and baby Emery's pumpkins I kept it simple and put there initials on the pumpkins and let him go to town.

 

I even got in on the action and taped my pumpkin in a Chevron pattern and spray painted it white. Super easy and I love the way it turned out.

 

I'm really hoping that Sandy doesn't wash out all of Halloween, but at this rate there may not be any Halloween candy left in my house come Wednesday. I knew I should have waited to open it!  



Pumpkin Time

With Halloween right around the corner time was running out for us to get our pumpkin carving on! So early Saturday morning we got to it. Knives aren't exactly the ideal thing for a 15 month old to be around so when I saw this post I just had to do it. It was a fun way to allow Cole a chance to get involved in the whole pumpkin thing. Using the washable crayola finger paint we let Cole decorate his own little pumpkin. Was it messy? Sure. Did he love it? Yep.







After he was all done we scooped him up and stripped him down. The paint washed off pretty easily, I was a little skeptical but that stuff rocks. Hubs wanted to carve his pumpkin so Cole was all about helping his daddy clean out all the ooey gooey stuff.





Here's how they turned out. Pretty darn cute. Notice my Ravens pumpkin? Kinda hard to read unless your up close.



So at least we have some Halloween decorations up now. I love all the Halloween decor out there just never got around to it this year. Hubs likes to make me feel better by my slacking saying "We Rock at Christmas Decor!No worries dear." Ha

Homestead Gardens

This weekend the weather was amazing so we took full advantage of it and made our way out to the country . Homestead Gardens was having a fall festival that included hay rides, pony rides, animals, pumpkin picking, a corn maze and great live music. Cole seemed content to just spend the day walking in and out of all the pumpkins. Gingerly smacking each one as he passed it.




While we passed on most of the activities because my child would much rather run around the free corn maze then ride a pony.




In fact he was not a fan of the pony at all. The second we placed him on the pony it was full out tears and arms reaching for me to save him. Maybe next year.



To recover from that we had to supply him with a homemade donut and hot dog for lunch. Uber healthy huh?! He seemed to forgive us and forget all about the pony. So back to the pumpkins we went and to a much more age appropriate activity the slide. :)








It was a great day. And I can't wait to go back for the Christmas Festival in a few months!