Sepia Tone Loving: Adventures in pumpkin land

A couple weeks ago, we visited the pumpkin farm. Ryan and I thought it would be cute to take Addie to pick out our pumpkins to carve at Addie's Halloween party (at that point we didn't know we wouldn't make it).

The day started out great. Addie was in a great mood, and our first stop was to the little petting zoo to see the goats, lambs and geese which went over very well. Then we went to the corn maze which was a little too easy to get around, and next we headed on over to the pumpkin patch via wagon ride to pick out the pumpkins. It was during the wait in line that someone pointed out Addie had lost a shoe... so we left the one on and Daddy kept his hand over Addie's sock foot to keep it warm. We had a great time picking out a couple perfect pumpkins, and started to head back to the car, but on the way back we noticed the sign for the boo barn.

The boo barn is a haunted barn for very little kids. It is basically a brightly lit path with cut outs of cartoon ghosts and obviously plastic spiders. We thought Addie might get a kick out of it and there was no line so we went inside. And that's when it happened.... we became the worst parents ever. We realized a little too late that we were in the wrong barn. Instead of taking Addie through the boo barn, we were taking her through the adult haunted barn, and it was pretty scary. It was almost totally dark, there were creepy lights and loud shrieking music, things that popped out of nowhere and cobwebs in our faces. Since Addie was in the baby bjorn and Ryan was wearing her in front of me (it was single file only in there) we couldn't see Addie's face until we got to a room of mirrors. She was absolutely silent, but she looked terrified and her poor little bottom lip was quivering. It was at that point that we basically started running to get out of there as fast as we could. When we finally got outside (it was a much longer walk than we expected), Addie cried for a long time, and it took both of us to calm her down. We felt so awful.

Here are some pictures of our adventure:

Our pumpkins