{"id":3675,"date":"2016-10-20T12:38:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.njphillipsfamily.com\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2016-10-20T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:44:56","slug":"pumpkin-picking-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/?p=3675","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Picking Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday I planned what I had hoped would be a memorable and fun family outing to pick pumpkins. Andrew’s best buddy Austin and his parents were going, the sunny was shining, it was almost 70 degrees and Andrew seems to love farm animals, tractors and all opportunities to run around. He even took a 3+ hour nap before we went! I had all the ingredients for a ‘Pinterest-Perfect’ afternoon.<\/p>\n

But boy was I wrong. From the moment we arrived at the farm Andrew expressed zero- perhaps even less than zero- interest in being there. He refused to stand and insisted to be held the whole time- which is increasingly hard to do when he weighs 30+ lbs and your 5.5 months pregnant. He wanted no parts of the animals and couldn’t be less excited by the pumpkin patch if he tried. Major strike out.<\/p>\n

This about captures the experience:\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>The only time he wasn’t crying was the tractor ride. He wasn’t happy but at least there weren’t tears.\"\"<\/a>As we drove home- in silence because we were all so exhausted- I realized\u00a0that my son actually\u00a0<\/em>gave me exactly what I was hoping for. Last Saturday was certainly memorable. I suppose I just need to be more specific about my expectations moving forward…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday I planned what I had hoped would be a memorable and fun family outing to pick pumpkins. Andrew’s best buddy Austin and his parents were going, the sunny was shining, it was almost 70 degrees and Andrew seems to love farm animals, tractors and all opportunities to run around. He even took a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}