Field trip that wasn't

Evie had a field trip to the pumpkin farm on Tuesday. Because it was pouring rain, they ended up closing the pumpkin farm and playground, but the animal farm and market were still open. So the kids still got to check out the animals. They refunded everyone, and still sent a pumpkin and activity book for all the kids with the school coordinator so they can have a little pumpkin patch set up at the school on a nicer day. 

Evie was super excited that this pig was named "bacon". She kept telling all of the other kids about it, and giggling. 

She was really upset about not being able to go over to the playground. She kept begging and promising not to get muddy. I'm thinking of possibly taking her and Kiersten back over one day when Kiersten doesn't go to school til after lunch. 

I bought her a caramel apple to try to notch down her devastation. She got the last one with sprinkles. (the rest had nuts)  I felt a little bad after, because some of the other kids saw her with it, and started begging for one too. So I walked her over to the lunch area to finish eating it more out of sight. 

I got her this little pumpkin, even though she'll be getting hers from school next week. She just couldn't stand the thought of going home without a pumpkin. She started crying when we left, because I wouldn't let her run over to the playground. She calmed down, and was actually trying to smile for this picture, but couldn't disguise her dismay. 

She hasn't painted her pumpkin yet, but we did have some really little ones that I let the girls decorate with sharpies. Kiersten just scribbled all over hers, and then was jealous of the cute faces Kara drew. She wanted to erase hers and start over, and was disappointed that the marker wouldn't come off. 

We had a pumpkin for Ben to decorate as well, and it was like pulling teeth to get him to decorate it. He finally drew a bat on his. I bought some big pumpkins at Sam's club (which is where I ended up going when the field trip was rained out) so hopefully we'll be carving those this week. I do love how they look already, just sitting on the porch.