Today we had nothing on the calendar so I decided to take Joshua to Koetsiers (a local greenhouse) for a morning of fun. Koetsiers has a huge area set up with fun fall activities for kids, all inside their greenhouse. We went there last October with a few of our friends from MOPS, but Joshua was so young he wasn't able to fully enjoy things. This year I knew he would get a kick out of all of the activities. We went late in the morning in hopes that not many people would be there - it turned out to be great timing because as we got there a school group was walking out! There were a few other moms with kids, but soon we had the area to ourselves! It's $5 for children over 2, but parents pay nothing. This cost includes painting a pumpkin, popcorn and all of the activities - the corn crib, pumpkin ball toss, maze, big wheels, blow-up train, blow-up pumpkin with blowing balloons, bean bag toss, pumpkin bowling, and face painting. Joshua especially loved the corn crib (a sandbox structure filled with feed corn) and being in the big blow-up pumpkin trying to catch all the balloons flying around! Not being one to take risks Joshua didn't dare try crawling through the blow-up train - although I must say, it's pretty intimidating for a small kid to crawl up and down obstacles for quite a long ways, all on a pillow of air in which you don't have great footing. I did have to coerce Joshua into painting his pumpkin, trying the maze and going on the big wheels - mind you he did enjoy it all, he just had to be talked into trying it! It was tons of fun and not too costly!

Painting a pumpkin!

Catching balloons!

Playing in the "Corn Crib"

Racing!

Finding Snoopy in the maze!

Joshua loved finding all the blow-up creatures in the maze.