Farm Fun & Fairytale Land

Never have weekends felt so sweet as during September with a new student in the house. Joe and I keep joking that Ez is the only one of us forced to go out and interact with society on a daily basis, and after a rough first week (more on that in another post), we wanted to treat the whole family to some upbeat, celebratory, fall-themed fun. Ez just so happened to fill up his entire chore chart this weekend too, so we made sure to tack on a few visits to his favorite places: Target ("it's not a toy store, it's TARGET") and "the blue toy store" (Toys R Us). Since we promised those were on the agenda he conceded to allow us to drag him to a farm to pick out our very first pumpkins of the year, and to Fairytale Land for a children's book festival. Despite a lackluster initial reaction to our plans, once we got to the farm and he found dirt to dig in, a hay tunnel which we lost both boys to for at least half an hour, and a mini pony that ate hay right out of our hands, his day was pretty much made. Fairytale Land was a huge hit too, with a couple hundred slides down Jack's beanstalk, and several slides down the tallest playground slide I've ever seen. Decky was content to hang out in a giant hunk of cheese, photo-bombing everyone else's pictures.