Cayden's Month of October

There was a Friday in October that Cayden's class and the whole first grade walked to the Hardy's pumpkin patch. I think it was the 9th but I can't remember for sure because I did not go on this field trip. The kids all got to pick out a pumpkin and then they had a picnic lunch. They also got to pick pears and pomegranates off the Hardy's trees. Grandma Hardy has been my visiting teacher a few times and has always brought us lots of fresh picked fruits and veggies from their garden. The last few years they have also let anyone who wants to go to the pumpkin patch and pick pumpkins for free after the first graders go. They grow the pumpkins specifically for the kids to come and pick. They have done that for years and years and it is so nice! Cayden carried around that pumpkin for weeks and pretended that it was his baby and that it was one of the kids in his "invisible class". He plays school upstairs and his class is invisible. He drew a smiley face on one side and a mad face on the other. I was worried that he would drop it lugging it all over the house and up and down the stairs but he didn't. Since we did not carve pumpkins at all this year because we went to Disneyland the pumpkin is still in his room sitting in the rocking chair.

Cayden also made a darling spider pinata in his occupational therapy time. I stupidly forgot to get a picture of it right when he brought it home and then the next Sunday when I was taking a nap the kids broke into it because there was candy inside. I hate it when I miss taking pictures of thinigs. It was not a paper mache pinata like you make with a balloon inside but since I did not get to see it broken into I don't know for sure how it was made.