Play and Learn Group - Shepard's Cross

 Last Friday we went out to Claremore to visit Shepard's Cross Pumpkin Patch with our Play and Learn Group.  The weather was beautiful and was a perfectly perfect day for a pumpkin patch visit!  Here are some highlights:

Group shots are always a challenge with three 3-year-olds and three 1-year-olds!  From left to right: Jacob, Oliver, Ben, Elliott, Lilly and Linnea

Oliver, Jacob, Lilly and Linnea were hanging out together playing a pumpkin game.

 We took a hayride!

 Here are all the kiddos wearing the leaf shirts they made when our group went to the Nature Center.

 We thought it would be fun to make a scarecrow. We were able to bring our own clothes and the pumpkin patch provide the hay.  This was a bigger challenge than what I thought it would be.  I brought Greg's pants and one of his Cardinal's shirts (the Cards were playing that night to win the 2011 World Series!!!)  It took A LOT of hay to fill his clothes....next time I think I'll make a smaller scarecrow.  The kids ended up playing around more than helping, but it was still fun.  The pic above is of Elliott as he was sliding off the hay.  Super fun!

Here's Lilly, Elliott and Oliver walking through the pumpkin patch together.  So cute!

 Holly worked hard the whole morning to keep Linnea's glasses on so that Linnea would get used to them!  Good job, Holly!

 There were ponies, goats, sheep and donkeys to pet.  They also had chickens and a rabbit.

 Here's Ben, Elliott and Jacob petting the sheep.

The kids were able to pick a free pumpkin to take home with them.

Here's our Cardinal's scarecrow!  After this picture was taken we painted one of our white pumpkins and made it look like a baseball!