Cute Lil' Pumpkins

Allie at the pumpkin patch 2008

Allie and her cute little friend Nicole

Hello all, today Allie's class from SHEEP (St. Helena's Early Enrichment Program-Mon. & Wed.) went to the 'pumpkin patch'. The patch is sponsored every year by the Methodist Church. This is the earliest that she has ever visited the patch and we were amazed at all of the weird looking pumpkins that are out there. Some were white, some had "yucky bumps" (as Allie called them), and some were the hugest, most perfectly sized pumpkins for carving that I've ever seen. In previous years her classes at Mother's Day out (Methodist church Tues & Thurs) have always gone to the patch but it is usually much closer to Halloween and the supply has been diminished. This is the first day that they are opened this year. She will go again with her other school (Methodist MDO) but they go on Oct. 30th, just one day before Halloween and also Allie's 5th b-day, so I don't imagine there wil be much left to see. It was fun getting to go with her this year. The last two years Meme has gotten to go because I was either working or in school. She had a great time, but I could definitely tell that she is not 100% back to herself after being sick. She ended up being sick all night long (Mon.) and well into Tues. morning. Then she started running a fever so she did not get to go to MDO yesterday. Her fever broke late yesterday afternoon and by the time I got home from work last night around 9pm it was gone. So...I broke down and let her go to the patch this morning. I am a firm believer that kids should be fever free for 24 hrs before going back, so I did not let her stay for school, we came home immediately after the patch. She got to pick a movie 'Monsters Inc.' and we watched it together. Macie has her dental appt. today at 2pm. She's a little nervous about having her teeth extracted. I'll let you all know later how she does. I imagine she will hurt some tonight.