Bartel's Farm field trip

We took a field trip to the pumpkin farm

We wore our TPAAK shirts so we were easy to spot. Here we are posing with silly faces by the wagon loaded with pumpkins with our teacher, Mrs. Van Horn.

Her superpower is teaching kindergarten!

We took a hayride pulled by a big tractor

We passed an old pickup that had been turned into farm equipment

Here's a look at the corn maze and the mountains. It was kind of hazy, so things are not so bright.

Off through the corn maze

At long last, we were able to go pick a pumpkin from the fields. Mine got to be too heavy for me, and I was tired, so I picked a gourd instead of a regular pumpkin. My classmate Ethan, who was riding in our car, carried a huge pumpkin almost all the way back to the parking lot when it dropped and cracked open. He picked a small pumpkin to actually go to the car.

Llama Llama Red Pajama!

For my class at school, I am supposed to pick a book character and wear that costume to class on Friday. Mama was not going to make multiple costumes, and she came up with an idea for me to be Llama Llama. She was going to try for the school look in the book she just purchased for me (Llama Llama and the Bully Goat. But she couldn't find the overalls.

So we went with the red pajamas from Llama Llama Red Pajamas instead. Mama took a hat and sewed it into a "llama top" for me.

We went to the Halloween carnival held at Mama's work (Front Range Community College) where I added pumpkin face paint to my look.

I played some of the games

I ate some cotton candy

In general I had a good time and ate too many sweets!

Uh-oh

Mama knew this day was coming, but was hoping to wait a few more years...

There was a partial eclipse of the sun visible in Colorado on Thursday afternoon, so Mama took me to the observatory at her work so I could see it.

They had a special telescope set up that would protect our eyes

Unfortunately the clouds were not cooperative and by the time we arrived, you could not see the sun.

So I played on the bike racks instead!