"The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him! I'll be there! I'll be sitting there in that pumpkin patch… and I'll see the Great Pumpkin. Just wait and see, Charlie Brown. I'll see that Great Pumpkin. I'll SEE the Great Pumpkin! Just you wait, Charlie Brown. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him…" 

– Linus, The Great Pumpkin

Alannah reminded me daily since she first saw the signs go up. When are we going to the pumpkin patch?  We are going to the corn maze right?  Is it this weekend?  

Yes.  This is my newly adult daughter. : )  Truthfully we were all anxious to go.

First stop was the Maize Maze, which makes me smile every time I say it.  Maize Maze.  There.  I said it again. 

The kids listened intently as the attendent explained that this year the maze was created in the shape of the Olypmic rings.  There were questions in each ring they had to locate and answer.  You can see Brendan was getting a little concerned. 

Off they went.  Since the maze was for children 5 and older Abbie and I hung out in the patch.  If I had been thinking ahead to how long it could take to find trivia in a half dozen concentric corn circles I probably would have kept the keys so we could get my purse from the car and buy some candy apples or something.  

In lieu of that sort of preplanning I suggested to Abbie that she race through the pumpkins while I took about 5000 pictures of her.  It's ok.  I didn't upload them all. 

mmmkay, maybe just a few.  She's the baby, what can I say. 

snail…

snail…

Do your kids do this? Mine have an assortment of fist bump animals. : ) 

Then they were all back and we got down to the serious business of picking perfect pumpkins.

We decided on a blonde one….

I did get the crew to sit for a group pic before we left. 

Gosh, I heart them.  

A very good day.