Leyton's Preschool visits Victoria's Garden

Leyton's Pre-K class went to Victoria's Garden today. Instead of going to a pumpkin patch before Halloween, his class opted to go after, partly due to timing and availability. It turned out to be a great day since most of the schools have already done their pumpkin patch, the place was not crowded at all which left plenty of room for the kids to run around and have fun.

Fortunately there was a "packaged" deal for the kids to try one of everything available for $10 each, which normally I guess cost $20. The got to go on a hay ride, play in an obstacle course and bouncers, pet and feed animals, pony ride, train ride and even take home a medium size pumpkin.

Luckily, Lincoln was also able to join in the fun and got to do all of the same things with Leyton's class. The most endearing part of the day was when the kids were playing on this giant bouncy slide. Keep in mind that the kids are between 4-5 years old and there was our little Lincoln and his 2 year old self. That didn't stop him from wanting to play in the bouncy and climb up the hill to go down the big slide. If you haven't seen one of those giant slides before, there typically is a rope and some type of "steps" to help you get up to the top because it is kind of steep. Well you can imagine that Lincoln was a little small to easily climb up the steps to the top. Kids were passing him left and right as he attempted to hang on to the rope and climb up each step, not giving up hope that he could get to the top. Leyton was such a sweet big brother as he tried his best to help Lincoln get to the top by holding him up from behind and kind of pushing him up to the next step until he reached the top. It sure took a long time for Lincoln to finally go down the big slide and the look on his face when he came down was just priceless and wanting more. So back he went to the steps, trying desperately to get up again. This time Leyton AND a handful of his classmates stopped to help Lincoln make his way up again, with much quicker success then the first. All in all, Lincoln made it down the slide 3 times with a lot of help from Leyton and his classmates and he loved every minute of it. It was difficult to tear him away to move on to the next activity.

The highlight for the boys at the pumpkin patch was to hand feed the animals which included rabbits, roosters, goats, sheeps and a very hungry alpaca. They've pet them before but this was the first time that they were both brave enough to hold food out in their hands for the animals to eat. They also got to experience their first pony rides, of which neither have been brave enough to do before.

The kids had a great time and maybe we'll come back here next year. Click on the photo below to go to photo album.