Jackson's Day

This morning was a scheduled field trip for Jackson's preschool class & since i rarely get to spend time one on one with him anymore, i decided to take Eli to Mema & Grandad's & just spend the morning alone with Jackson. We had breakfast at Dunkin Donuts (a real treat as i usually shun these kinds of foods for him!) We both had a pumpkin flavored donut & split a large milk. It was pretty yummy.

Then we headed over to the dollar tree since we had about 45 minutes to kill before leaving to meet the group at the pumpkin patch. I told Jackson he could pick out one thing & he changed his mind on every aisle! He finally settled for a tablet of Cars stickers.

Then we headed out to a pumpkin patch in Wilson's Mills. They took us on a hayride with this tractor & dropped us out to pick out a pumpkin. This looks like a big hayride, until you put 3 classes of 15 kids each plus 3 teachers & a parent per kid & what you really feel like is a sardine.

Due to space constraints, this was the best picture i could get of me & Jackson on the hayride.Each child got a hat as a souvenier, but they went ahead & gave them out before we took off on the hayride. Jackson already has a cowboy hat, but he was still pretty excited about it.

Once they dropped us off, Jackson got right to picking out a pumpkin. They weren't actually growing in this field, but were just picked & scattered in this field for the kids to rummage through. Jackson got a heavy one (that i had to lug the rest of the morning of course!) This was just before he dropped it!Before the hayride got full again, a fellow mother took another picture for us after she saw me struggling earlier i guess!Then the tractor dropped us off at a haymaze where Jackson wasn't too sure about going in without me, but got brave & decided to follow his peers....

After the haymaze, each kid got some snap peas to feed some farm animals. They were all in a pen together- a miniature horse, a donkey, & 2 goats. One goat in particular was quite abrasive & got pretty much all the snap peas. He was such a glutton!!

This sign didn't give much reassurance & they were posted EVERYWHERE!

The last stop of the field trip was to a very large blow up pumpkin where a nice lady read them all a pumpkin story. Then jackson & I headed off to get a drink (since it was 87 degrees out!) before heading back for one last photo op on the way to the car.

It was such a nice morning with just my j-man & me. I think he enjoyed it too because he held my hand a LOT throughout the morning & on the way home the dialogue went something like this:

Mama, thank you so much.

You're welcome buddy!

I had such a dood (good) time.

Me too buddy, i had a great day with you.

I love you so much mama.

I love you too, buddy. What was your favorite part of today?

I liked the hayride. You liked it, too?

I liked it all, but i thought that goat was pretty silly, buddy!

Yeah, it was pretty silly, right, mama?!

Right!