Washington Farms with the Kindergarten

Today Jessica's kindergarten class went to Washington Farms in Watkinsville to go on a hayride, pick out a pumpkin, and learn about farming. Here's Jessica, along with a couple of her classmates, waiting for it all to get started:

Jessica brought her binoculars with her:

Here she is sitting on a bale of hay, mostly being bored, I think:

Pumpkins!

They had a giant bouncy thing the kids could jump on, which may have been the highlight of the trip:

But the slides were pretty popular too:

Before we left, Jessica consented to sit in the giant rocking chair so I could take a picture:

To the Pumpkin Patch with Elyse

On Friday, Elyse's class at Bethesda United Methodist Preschool went to the Pumpkin Patch to hear a couple of pumpkin stories and pick out a pumpkin. Here's Elyse with the inflatable giant pumpkin and black cat:

This is the size of pumpkin that was set aside for Elyse's class to chose from:

However, Elyse was much more interested in the bigger pumpkins:

Especially this one:

which she was convinced she could pick up:

She did eventually settle for rolling it:

One of Elyse's classmates had brought along her six-month-old sister, who just fascinated Elyse:

They developed quite a rapport:

This is Elyse with the older sister of her baby-pumpkin friend:

Bunches of pumpkins:

Bunches of preschool visitors (and their teachers):

The Girls, October 2012

Here's a baker's dozen portraits of the girls, taken from two separate photo shoots from the past few days: