Wilson's Orchard

We didn't made it out to Wilson's Orchard as a family this year, but I took the boys out for a picnic and joined Sylvia's kindergarten class on their field trip.

The tractor doesn't run during the week when we went out with the boys so we filled our time with lunch, lots of running and looking at pumpkins.  Not sure what these two are talking about here but I'm sure their devising some plan that was not on our itinerary.

Sylvia's class also did lots of running.  The kindergartners all had such a good time on their first elementary school field trip.  They read apple books, did a taste test of many of the orchard's apples, drank apple juice and rode the tractor.

Happy to have her mama along on the field trip.

Ready for a tractor ride with her friend Pritika.

Someone got a little tired out on her field trip.

Ms. Jensen's kindergarten class.

Wilson's Orchard and Pumpkin Patch

We headed out to Wilson's Orchard with some friends last weekend.  There aren't any apples on the trees so we checked out the pumpkins

 

Sylvia was so excited to look for a pumpkin that she picked up the first one she saw before we even made it to the pumpkin patch.

 

Drake snuggling with mommy during the tractor ride. 

 

Looking for a pumpkin in the sparse pumpkin patch.  Dan noticed that most of the pumpkins on the vine were rotten.  The nice ones looked like they'd been set out there.

 

Eric and Eli hanging with Andrea and Josh.  The guy in the background is strapping his pumpkin into the stroller.

 

Eric and Sylvia got to take an extra trip on the tractor with daddy.  Sylvia and I found a red ticket out in the pumpkin patch and she won a free donut.

 

After eating some apple donuts and turnovers, Sylvia took a picture for us.

 

She was able to get this one too after I asked her to make sure daddy's head was in the picture. 

Apple Orchard

We took advantage of the warm October weather earlier this month and took a trip to Wilson's Orchard. Grandma and Grandpa were watching Ben and Katie that day and joined us for the fun. We enjoyed a picnic lunch despite all the bees and then went for a tractor ride. There weren't any apples left on the trees but the kids hunted around on the ground and found a few that didn't look too bad. The girls rode the tractor back to the store while the boys hiked back and even walked across the creek. We all had apple turnovers, ice cream and apple cider slushies before heading home. Ben wanted to make sure they were home in time for the Iowa football game.

Sylvia's attempt at climbing a tree.
Getting ready for the tractor ride.
She's getting so tall.
Sylvia and Ben
Sylvia and Katie
Eric had a blast running around the orchard.
Picking (up) apples.
Eric collecting apples.
Eric and Grandpa
Mommy and kiddos
Our attempt to have all four kids looking at the same time.
Ben and Eric

The Forchard

We took a family trip to Wilson's Apple Orchard last Saturday. Sylvia keeps calling it "the forchard." She called it the apple church when I took her out for our preschool picnics in September. There weren't a lot of apples to pick but the weather was beautiful and we all enjoyed some time together. Sylvia said the tractor ride was her favorite. She keeps talking about when it went through the water. She also said something yesterday about when I used to be a man at the forchard. I finally figured out that she was talking about when I put my face in the Johnny Appleseed cut out.

Wilson's Orchard

Last Sunday, we enjoyed a family trip to the apple orchard. Sylvia and I have been out a couple of times for preschool picnics but this is the first time we picked apples...and took dada with us. She walked right up to the building when we got there. Before heading out into the orchard we stopped for a potty break. The bathrooms have barn boards on the wall and Sylvia sings EIEI (Old McDonald) every time we've used them.

I have failed to officially announce on the the blog that I am pregnant. However, if you didn't already know, it is now obvious from the picture below.


Sylvia enjoyed carrying her own basket and was not thrilled that we took it from her once it was filled with apples.




We had a hard time finding apples within reach on any of the trees at first so Sylvia settled for picking them up off the ground. She didn't have the best taste in apples so we ended up taking most of them out of the basket when she wasn't looking.



She learned that you have to pull the apples off the trees and now says "pull" whenever she sees an apple. She's really using some leverage here to get this one off.


Unfortunately, we weren't able to catch a ride on the trailer but Sylvia enjoyed hanging out on dada's shoulders. We've been having more frequent meltdowns recently so I was impressed that she did okay with the tractor driving without us on it on three separate occasions.