These pumpkins ARE NOT for sale!!

We headed out yesterday to Hunsader Farms and the pumpkin patch. I think we will add this to the ever growing list of dumb things we have done as new parents! Hunsader Farms has a lot to offer in terms of activities for kids, but Hayley is not nearly old enough to enjoy the festivities. Basically, we paid to park, paid for admission, and then fought the crowd, only to take a few pictures of Hayley and Chloe at the pumpkin patch and buy ourselves a snow cone! Had I recovered the brain cells that I lost while pregnant by now I would have had the good sense just to go down to one of the church pumpkin patches and take Hayley and Chloe's pictures there for free. Anyhow, the pumpkin patch itself was of course full of other parents trying to photograph their little darlings. We tried to find a semi-quiet corner to begin our photo shoot. It didn't go as I had hoped. Within minutes there were people surrounding us gawking at our babies and asking if Chloe was a "real" dog. They had their cameras drawn and were taking pictures left and right. Chloe didn't know where to look and Hayley was more interested in trying to eat the hay which (as you can imagine) sent Daddy over the edge! I finally just accepted that with all the distraction I was not going to get "great" pictures of Hayley or Chloe, much less of them together. I WILL get my Pumpkins with their pumpkins pictures another day, mark my words! :)

While trying to de-stress over a snow cone, we met up with our friends Chris, Dawn, and Luke. Luke was showing off by eating Cheerios in front of Hayley. I would have given $100 to know what was going through her little head as he was waving those Cheerios in front of her face!

Chloe is just now starting to warm up to Hayley a bit more and has started letting Hayley actually touch her. So far Hayley has been WONDERFUL with Chloe. It's almost as if she understands that Chloe is a dog and she must be gentle. Usually she tries to grab everything she touches (like our hair) but when she touches Chloe she generally just feels her fur and won't clench into a fist. Hayley laughs everytime she pets Chloe or sees her walk by. Hayley is also close to sitting up on her own. She seems to have the support she needs in her back to sit, but is still trying to learn balance.