Firsts ~ Corn Maze

Seems unnatural that our pumpkin and corn maze afternoon took place on the first snow day of the season, but then again, God knows how dearly I ache for Colorado, so He was obviously making me feel at home. And, it's New England so the weather most likely will change drastically in the next five minutes.

James made it clear that corn is not for playing or for mazes ;) but he surely had a wonderful time ... winter hat and all (not loving all the layers just yet).

This corn maze was in the shape of a turtle ... or as corrected by James to the nice young lady taking our money, a "tortoise" ... and it was 7 acres HUGE. There were ten mailboxes with questions about turtles and the right answer was our clue to walk in the correct direction. It took two hours. Clearly we need a lesson on turtles. Eh em, tortoises.

It was gorgeous outside ~ a little snow on the ground, 40 degrees, white puffy clouds, sunshine, and fall foliage. 

 

Draft Horses ~ stunning

 

You're Lost

After 90 minutes we made it to the eye of the turtle. Phew.

 

Firsts ~ Snow

We woke to a much-anticipated dusting of snow last night and the girls could not wait to get James outside for his first snow. He was not impressed. :) A lot of "WHAAAAAT THAT?" and "Nooooooooo" and "Coooooooooold". Just wait until we have several feet on the ground ~ last January we had about 90" in that  month alone. {insert evil chuckle}

(Thanks for looking past the jammies, jackets, snow boots, Converse, and missing hats and gloves. We were all too excited to wait for such details.)

Firsts ~ Toes-in-Sand

Being from a small tribe on the Sudan border of Ethiopia, James does not have oodles of experience with the ocean, especially with a beach as wide, dark, rocky, and cold as our nearest sandy spot.

First parent fail ... explain in broken "English" that one who cannot swim must stop running into the water.

A sweet time was had by all, including Uncle Nate visiting from North Carolina. Oh how we loved having his company!

Winter hats and flip flops ... our kind of bliss.

Ah, my girl.

What must have been swirling in his head?

Just love this boy so very much.

Four special reminders to live fully and intentionally and with childlike abandon.