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:

The Girls with Granny and Pa

This afternoon we had a photo shoot with the girls and their Granny and Pa. I don’t think we got the perfect image of all four of them together that my mom had in mind, but getting a five-and-a-half-year-old and a two-and-a-half-year-old to cooperate for any length of time is close to impossible. In any case, I think some of the pictures turned out really well, even if they weren't quite what we had in mind:

Family Portraits

This afternoon we made some family portraits! Getting a five-and-a-half-year-old and a two-and-a-half-year-old to cooperate is challenging, but we managed to get a few good pictures.

(Jessica took this picture herself. You can see the wireless remote in her hand if you look closely enough.) 

Uncle Norbert's Clock

On our mantle sits a late nineteenth or early twentieth century Ingraham clock that belonged to Anna's late Uncle Norbert. This is a photographic study of it I made last night after everyone else had gone to bed: