This year we decided to check out the Ardenwood Farm in Fremont for their annual Harvest Festival.  It was a huge farm with an old fashioned farm train, a large cornfield, some farm houses and many picnic areas.  There was also a large pumpkin patch outside of the farm. We started the visit by riding the train ride first.  We waited in line for a little bit, then the train arrived.  However, they wanted to add a freight cart, and ended up re-doing the seating arrangement and did some more hammering.  So after another 20+ minutes of waiting, we finally got to enjoy the short train ride.  We then went to the cornfield in hope to get some corns too.  There were many people coming out with bags of corns.  But after walking around the empty cornfield for a little bit, we gave up knowing that the corns were probably deeper into the field.  The boys did have fun wandering around the field as this was an unique experience for them.  After all the running around, it was time for lunch.  Stuart and Logan went to watch the blacksmith making horseshoes while Connor and I bought our lunches at the farm café.  We then had a nice little lunch on a picnic table.  Pumpkin patch was our last destination before heading home.  The patch was actually quite nice; it had a hay pyramid for us to climb on, and a cool hay maze.  Logan ran through the maze three times, and Connor had a great time walking through it while holding my hand.  We went around the pumpkin patch for a bit longer until we were all tired and hot, then we headed home after taking a few pumpkins with us.

     An update on Logan.  He seemed to be accepting the replacement bear; we actually just called him Teddy too.  Logan had taken new Teddy around a few times today, but definitely not as much he used to do with old Teddy though.  He did ask about old Teddy once tonight at bedtime.  We are happy that Logan is ok with the whole thing, but we’ll see if he still feels that way when it really settles in that he’s not coming back.  However, we do wonder if it was due to losing old Teddy that Logan was acting out today.  He yelled out “no” to me and walked away, and once he just ran all the way to the hay maze on his own without checking with us.  We had to have a few serious talks with him.  Besides Logan’s bad behaviors, Connor was tiring us out too.  He wanted to walk on his own rather than being in the stroller while we were at the farm, so we ended up having to carry him for quite a long time.  Stuart and I were exhausted from today; we were happy to relax a bit after both boys were down shortly after 8pm today.