Apple Day at the Farm

Brooklyn Park's Eidem homestead has several "special event days" and yesterday is what we call "Apple Day." There is an 1800's baseball game, fresh pressed apple cider (pressed in a manual, really old press), hay rides, and other fun little activities.

Here are some photos from the day.
Three little Battan kids sitting on a bench eating apples straight from the growers baskets. Nicholas LOVES apples - I think they qualify as his favorite fruit and one of his favorite words to say.

All of the kids want a turn on the rope swing, and you can't really swing unless you get a good push. So Nicholas helped Daniel out...

Nicholas is too little to swing alone, so Mommy helped (even with my "lack of a lap"). Daniel thought he would be a hero and help with the pushing. What's really funny is the next photo where Mommy smacked into Daniel because he didn't understand that the swing comes back with more force. No Battan kids were injured during this trip :)

I call this the leprechaun photo. Nathan sent Abby and Daniel into a little stand of treed and shrubs next to the farmhouse. They were so excited to find "a really gigantic mushroom" and made daddy go into the trees to take a picture of them with their find. The mushroom is that brown circle-thing between the two of them. But really - how cute are these smiles? And for once- I can tell that they are related - look at those chins and cheeks!

The kids also got a lesson in the identification of poison ivy. Daddy found some about 3 feet from where they found their mushroom. I don't know if the lesson sunk in, but they did manage to avoid getting covered in poison ivy.