"God doesn't give children with special needs to strong people; He gives children with special needs to ordinary, weak people and then gives them strength. Raising a child with special needs doesn't take a special family, it makes a special family."--Author Unknown

Monday, October 4, 2010

Corn Maze and Cabin

Every year we try and do a corn maze with our family. We decided to go this Friday since I had some good coupons. Grandma T came with us--Grandpa T couldn't come because he had to work. Anyway after the corn maze we were going to head up to the cabin for the weekend. As I was packing everything up it got awfully quiet. I went looking for Sarah and found her in my bathroom sitting in the sink putting on my makeup. What the picture doesn't show is how she stopped up the sink and then turn on the faucet. Nice. She is fast and quiet when it comes to getting into mischief!! Anyway when we got to the corn maze they have a lot of other activities to do as well. They had a mini cow train ride the kids wanted to go on.
Sarah had to ride with an adult, but the adult had to get in the car first before Sarah could sit on Aaron's lap. However, when she saw Aaron crawl into the car she thought she wasn't going on the ride and started screaming. She suddenly stopped when Aaron grabbed her and put her in his lap, however you can still see her red face and tear streaked cheeks.
They also had some air trampolines the kids loved jumping on. They had one for big kids and one for little kids. Josh and Matthew went on the big one. Daniel went back and forth between the kid one and the big one. I took Sarah on the little one. I thought she would love it--I was wrong. She just clinged to my leg until I got her off the trampoline.
They also had a big slide area where you could crawl up a rope net to get to go down a variety of slides. The boys took off and Sarah saw they were going without her. She threw off her shoes and headed after them. The boys took care of her and went down the slides with her.
They also helped her climb up the rope net ladder.
We then headed over the actual corn maze. Sarah was in the back pack on Aaron's back and I had Noah in the front pack. We let the boys have turns being our fearless leaders, but finally we had to take over before we got hopelessly lost. The boys posed for this picture of them in the rule breaker stocks.
They also had pig races there. Josh was picked out of the crowd to assist with them. He was so excited. His pig lost the race, but he was still happy to participate.
They also had a hay ride we went on around Thanksgiving Point. We all crawled on. Josh being the friendly person he was sat next to another boy about his age. He started off their conversation like this, "So, did you see me on TV?" Surprisingly enough the little had not seen Josh on TV for the minute he was on. Josh is letting his stardom go to his head!!

They had a big pile of hay you could climb on. The boys got to the top and Sarah could not be left out so she ran over and started climbing up and got to the top with almost no help. She has really honed her climbing skills at home. They have finally paid off for her.
They had roping areas where you could sit on a mock horse with a saddle and try to lasso the cow horns. Daniel tried sitting on the saddle, but gave up and walked over to the horns and just threw the lasso around them--it's a lot easier that way.
They also had tether ball courts set up. We had fun playing with them.
They have the big rocking chair you can sit on. We have sat on it every year and this year was no different.
They also had a princess dress up area. Sarah was excited to see the princess and stood next to her.
They had a horse and carriage set up. The boys were Princess Sarah's drivers.
Sarah got to dress up and see herself in the mirror.
Josh didn't want Sarah to have all the fun so he dressed up as her Page.
After the corn maze we headed up to the cabin. We had lots of four wheeler rides, roasted marshmallows, blew bubbles and listened to Conference all weekend. We had lots of fun.

1 comment:

Jeff n Jill said...

looks like y'all had a fun weekend! I kept waiting for the part where "someone had an accident and we had no wipes or no diapers or no new undies"...it is just another corn maze tradition... :)