Last Monday the kids were off school and I took off work, so we headed to the pumpkin village at the arboretum. Since it was fair day for basically all Dallas area districts, it was packed. Seriously, all of Dallas seemed to be there. It was worse than a Saturday. The good part of that, though, is that we ran into several friends there, so it was fun to visit with all of them!
So far Grey has been pretty different than Hunter was at this age. He's very rough and tumble - we call him Wreck It Grey - and loves sports already. But over the last 3 or so weeks he has become really fearful kind of out of nowhere. Hunter went through a phase were he would say "_____ hurt you", but that stopped years and years ago. Grey has started in on the "____ hurt you", but to more of an extreme. Hunter was really afraid of dogs and a couple of other things, but Grey will say it about everything! He adds the word "not" in the sentence, though...."pumpkins not hurt you", "moon not hurt you", "train not hurt you", "Buzz not hurt you". Take your pick! It became worse on Monday at the arboretum. I think the pumpkins set him off. He was constantly saying, "pumpkins not hurt you!" in his scared voice and refused to sit by them for a picture. So I didn't get a cute one of all three little loves, but I got several of the 2 bigs...
Look at the terror here...
Notice Hunter posed on the left. Charlotte is beside him, but this is as close as Grey would get to the pile of pumpkins...
They actually have a UNT one!!! Go Scrappy!!
Some of the friends we ran into. Riley and Noah an Hunter were all friends in our old neighborhood. Love and miss them!
Then on Thursday we went to the pumpkin patch at Murphy Road Baptist Church to buy our pumpkins for the front porch. Grey was again terrified and refused to get in a picture...
So we decided to force him, and this was the best I could get...
Tonight, we went to Sachse's Pumpkin Prowl and had so much fun! Even Grey did! No whining about the pumpkins either...maybe it's just the big ones that scare him. First they had a costume contest...we didn't get there in time for that part, which wasn't a problem because my 8 year old is apparently too cool to wear the $30 costume that we bought him:/
Then they counted down and all kids under 10 got to run onto the ball field to hunt pumpkins and candy...
Rainbow Dash posing before the hunt...
Our little pirate Jake (of course he won't wear the Jake headband. And he freaked out SHAKING when I put that shirt on, yelling - you guessed it - "shirt hurt you!!!")...
The kids got tons of candy.
And Grey got a pumpkin. Oh, the irony.
Then, Char and I went to wait in line for the haunted hay ride while the boys played at the bounce houses. They joined us just in time...
The Sachse HS theater students were running the hay ride and did AWESOME! They had a witch, zombie, mummy, screeching monkey and some scary horror movie girls and lots of other people that would pose or run beside the tractor. Charlotte and the other girls riding with us shrieked the whole time and Hunter kept saying, "This is so scary!" in the most excited voice ever - with a smile on his face. Grey just sat there and stared, not phased at all. Then when it was over he said, "moon not hurt you!" in his scared voice. That kid is crazy.
They were showing Hotel Transylvania on the big screen on the ball field so we went over to watch it, but Grey just couldn't last and the concession stand was taking longer than you can even imagine just to get some hot dogs, so we bailed and came home to eat and watch a movie. Hopefully next year Grey will be old enough to stay for it. Such a fun night!!
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