Linder Farms & The Maze 2010

Jesse and I have lived in Idaho for a total of 8 years (interrupted by PA school and our Nashville experience, in the middle) and have never, ever been to a corn maze. Pathetic, we know. But we finally went today with the family (and that always includes Melinda). It was a blast!

We started out at the petting zoo. I have been wanting Jesse Jay to experience one now that he is two. We paid our 1 token for the admission and food. Jesse Jay had to watch me feed the animals a few times for him to decide he was interested. He is definitely his father's boy in that regard. Contemplative. Has to see you do it a few times before he decides it's safe. But once he figured it out, he loved feeding the animals. He would giggle as the animals mouths and tongues tickled his fingers. He just needed a few reminders to straighten out his fingers.

We tried to see if he would handle a pony ride. Since I couldn't show him how to do that (weight limit is 75 lbs) he wanted nothing more to do with the ponies than petting them. He wouldn't even sit on one. The people running it were real nice and let us take our time trying to see if he'd go for it or not. He was definitely NOT having any of that.

Then we went through the Bronco's corn Maze. The first part we seemed to just fly through. Probably because we appointed Jesse Jay as our guide. He appears to have his mama's good sense of direction. When we got to the median bridge to proceed with the second part, we couldn't make a correct decision to save our lives. Jesse Jay didn't want to walk anymore and was over it. We ended up back tracking to the beginning again, since that part we were actually good at. And it was starting to get dark and I didn't think the babies would appreciate the haunted version of the maze that goes on past dark.

When we finally had made it back to civilization, we wanted to sit for a little bit and thought a hay ride was in order. So we sat the boys down and rode around the farm. After the hay ride we wanted some hot cider since it was getting cold. They also made yummy Mini Donuts Jesse just couldn't resist. And yes, they were DELICIOUS.

We ended the evening in front of the fire. Melinda showed Jesse Jay how to keep his hands warm. She also taught him a new word "Okie dokie" which makes me giggle each time he says it. Jesse was rolling Toby around in his arms and called over to me "Hey look Mommy, it's a Toby on a spit." It was so funny and Toby seemed to really enjoy it.

Jesse Jay fell asleep on the way home. Toby was too busy letting Melinda feed him and than chatting it up with her afterwards. His hair after we took his hat off made everyone giggle.


Now this Mama has to get to bed before she has to work tomorrow. One 12 hour shift, then Tobin's dedication on Sunday. I have had a lot of needed time off and we have been making the most of it!