Maple Lane Farms Pumpkin Patch || 10-12-08

What's Halloween without picking out your own pumpkin? Maple Lane Farms in Greenback is great. For $2 a person over 6, you get a hayride where you can pick your own pumpkins (priced between .50 and $10 ea).
The Pumpkin Patch is always a great trip, if for no other reason than to watch Myers pick out a pumpkin with the shrewd discernment of a used car dealer inspecting a trade in. He goes to extremes, first looking at the pumpkins, first feeling them, then knocking on them, then hugging them. If the pumpkin passes all of those tests, he gives the all-important taste test (yes, we have pictures). We're always worrying that Baiely is getting too old for stuff like this, but thankfully we had another year of childhood magic. If nothing else, having Myers around prolongs and enlivens that magic. Just as Jodie and I like to live vicariously through the kids, so does Bailey live vicariously through Myers. He's been a blessing for us in so many ways, if for no other reason than how he has influenced the development of Bailey's personality and growth of her confidence.