Corn Maze

There is a very small farm down the street from us. Well, it's not in our neighborhood or anything, but when you come out of our neighborhood and drive to the next big intersection, there's the farm. It's a cute little place that has cows and horses, or as Amanda likes to say Nays and Moos, and every fall they have a pumpkin patch. I don't know if the pumpkin patch is a Texas or southern thing or if they've just come to be since I was a kid, but we never went to them when I was growing up. In fact, I never even heard of them until I had kids of my own.

Some of the pumpkin patches here are huge, but of course everything is bigger in Texas, haha. The one we like to take the kids to has bounce houses and a pumpkin chucker (a huge pumpkin slingshot with targets), pony rides, petting zoo, hay rides and even a few small midway rides. That one is awesome as far as pumpkin patches go. The only problem is that it's still pretty hot here in October, so the kids don't get to wear their costumes and usually have shorts on. Not very fall-like to me, but they don't know the difference.

The pumpkin patch at the farm near our house is small. In fact, it's so small that we've never even bothered to take the kids there. No rides, no bounce houses, nothing that special at all. They have pumpkins and that about it, except for the corn maze. Over the past year, Sarah has become fascinated by the corn maze.

Basically, they grow a small area of corn and cut a maze into it. I'm sure it's not that hard or scary and the kids probably spend less than five minutes in it, but it's all Sarah can talk about. We drive by that farm everyday on her way to school, and within the last couple of weeks the corn has started to grow. As soon as the corn started to grow she started asking about the maze.

As I said, we've never been. But last year one of Sarah's classmates went and told her all about the corn maze. She was intrigued. She wanted to go, but she didn't find out about it until close to Halloween and then we never had time before they closed for the year. Over the winter and spring every once in awhile she would bring it up and ask a few questions, telling me how her friend went in it, and I would always say let's wait until fall and we can go this year. What else was I supposed to say?

Now she's just watching that stuff grow. How high will the corn be for the maze? Will it be taller than me? Will it be taller than Andy? Will it be taller than you and Daddy? Is it scary? How long will it take? When can we go? What if we get stuck in there and never get out? Will you lift me up so I can see over the corn? Seriously, the kid is obsessed with the corn maze.

I'm not sure when they open, probably not until October 1. She may die with anticipation. Luckily that corn is growing fast and there is a huge pole that tells how tall it is. Right now most of it is taller than she is, which drives her nuts. All I know is that as soon as that pumpkin patch is open, she's going to make us go. Probably more than once. I hope she's not disappointed.