Fall Apples!

Blake and I headed to the apple orchard for some more apples, because the last batch I bought was almost out. I had made crock pot applesauce with them and Blake and I thoroughly enjoyed it so I wanted to make more. I say Blake and I b/c Scott never tried it. Last time I gave him applesauce in his lunch, he told me he gagged trying to finish it. He had told me that he didn't really like it, but I decided to give it to him anyways since I didn't have any other fruit and assumed it just wasn't his favorite from that comment--surely didn't realize he disliked it that much!!

I have another batch "roasting" at the moment and I am loving the aroma!!

Here are a "few" pictures from our outing:



Figured I needed a fall pumpkin shot with my Halloween baby. Kind of hard to get a good one though...

Blake and Mommy--Blake is much more interested in checking out the chickens than taking a picture

Arriving at the picking area--they had cute little wagons for me to pull Blake in and he loves his wagon rides!!

We were given an apple to "taste" and Blake carried it around the whole time. I was hoping his hand wasn't getting too cold b/c it was a chilly day!

Off to pick, with mouth full!!

Ready to pick with his bag and half eaten apple :)

Not sure what this face is, but it is kinda cute :)

Trying again for a picture together

This is how Blake eats whole apples--he starts on the outside and just keeps going...all the way through...

Ok, so he didn't really pick any apples, but he carried his bag around the whole time :)

Our bag of apples! I didn't really get that many b/c I wasn't sure exactly how these apples tasted, plus they were all small and all the others were picked over so that I couldn't really reach any nice ones.

Running through the pumpkins!

Checking out the chickens and trying to throw a pumpkin into their pen. I kept telling him "no" but his mind was set to get that pumpkin in the pen. I had to intervene...

 It was quite difficult to get Blake to leave the orchard, and when I finally forced him b/c he had a smelly diaper, we got in the front seat of the car for the change. He loves being in the front seat and playing by pressing all the buttons, pretending to drive, etc. Well, it was also hard to get him to leave the front seat...I got out of the car to go get him from his side and without me realizing he was even paying attention to what I was doing, he became successful at avoiding me. He instantly figured out what I was doing when I left the car and would quickly go to the other side--we did this several times.


Once he started looking at this book on the driver's side, I thought I had him distracted enough to get to the other side and grab him...well, he was on the other side once I got around and was laughing at me. "Silly Mommy", is probably what he was thinking :)

So, I tried running to beat him to the other side--once again, he won.

Eventually, I bored of the game and just reached over the seat and grabbed him. Thank goodness parent's are much bigger than `almost` two year olds! :)