There was a day last week (before the heat index was above 100) that the girls and I were out for an off-road walk in the Bob Stroller around our property. It’s a fact that our homestead is a quaint island in an ocean of corn and soybeans.
And what native Iowan child doesn’t go exploring in the cornfields?
I parked the stroller and coaxed the girls into the dense forest of cornstalks. They weren’t sure at first.
But soon they were playing and exploring… and I was wishing I had my nice camera with me. Iphone pics are the new DSLR…k?
Did you know that the base of cornstalks look like this?
This next pic could totally be on the cover of a horror movie… what’s up with Hollywood using children to make their movies even more sinister? EW. My girl is too cute for that.
Sometimes, when you live far from civilization, you have to make your own fun. Playing in cornfields seems so wholesome and… non-2013. I love that my girls can experience childhood like this. I hope that they will be adventure-seekers, and have wild imaginations.
I’m always smacked in the face with love for my tiny monsters in the midst of the chaotic ‘twos’. LOVING days like this.
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I love the idea of my girls sharing a room; whispering and giggling into the…
awe.. sooo cute!!!
I used to play in the corn/bean fields too – 80+ acres- if i got 'lost' eventually if you follow the row, you'll come out on an end- so a good walk if you do get turned around… but then, i was raised looking at the stars at night & able to tell time by looking at the position of the sun.(usually within an hour) so as long as you don't panic & look at it as an adventure- you'll be find… ahhh the country life.
dana s
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when our sons were little, they and their friends would make "houses" in the field. They would always come get us to tour their "home" – once proudly showed us their bathroom. So miss those days and thankful you are drinking in your moments. God so blesses!
Since I don't watch scary movies; I thought of the movie (filmed in Iowa btw) "Field of Dreams"….."If you build it, they will come…"
Beth, you have so many beautiful photos that I immediately thought of you when I saw the Silos and Smokesacks contest for agriculture photos. Check it out! http://www.silosandsmokestacks.org/get-involved/photo-contest/
Just found your blog from the comment section of Brittany's "PrettyHandyGirl" blog. (Isn't it funny how that works? 🙂 )
Your pics turned out great! They were taken with your iPhone? My hubby just surprised me with an iPhone 5 a few days ago, after using an ancient one for quite some time and, I admit, I'm still getting accustomed to everything it can do.
By the way, your kiddos are cute. The one picture of your daughter, standing at the brink of the cornfield, definitely looks horror film-esque. I couldn't help but think of the little girl crawling out of the well, in that movie The Ring. (She is still a cutie, nonetheless!) 🙂
Yes, Kids playing in corn fields, Not a good idea when it gets taller then they are. It can be awful easy for a little one to get disorientated.
Bob
Hi Bethany – we also live on an acreage in Iowa. A few weeks ago my children were out in our backyard playing, as the always do (they are 4 and 2). I ran inside to grab something and when I came back out they were gone, nowhere to be found. Usually I can call their name and they are just around the corner but this time they were nowhere. After what seemed like the longest 5 minutes of my life and all my screaming and yelling for them was coming up empty it was then that I panicked that they had wandered into the cornfield beside our property. My heart sank and I began to hypervenalate. I called my mother in law who lives just around the corner from us and she came over with my brother in law and we began searching. All of a sudden we heard a horn honk and we started frantically searching all the vehicles. It turns out they were behind our shed and had jumped into my husbands pickup. Thankfully it wasn't a hot morning, and we ran and got them out. They sure had me panicked. We always teach them you do not go into cornfields. Even when we visit pumpkin patches we do not let them do the corn maze. When they are older and more able to understand the dangers then they will be allowed to go in corn mazes 🙂
I will say though that your girls are so cute! Glad you could enjoy the weather outside before the heat wave came!
Dang…that corn doesn't look very tall to me…the corn in our backyard is so looming I'm afraid it's going to eat my dog! The girls look so adorable!!! That's so great they get to grow up there and enjoy "real life."
-andi
That's so scary! Thanks for the heads-up… we will definitely be educating the girls on this danger.
Seriously. SERIOUSLY. It is not normally this hot.
HAHA! Creepy right?
I'm freaked out by the weird goblin corn feet, but adore those babies
OMG so fun! I grew up in west Texas and we had milo and cotton fields amongst the cattle pastures with a great river to frolic in. I still love the adventure and my kiddos loved exploring, still do!! Sweet memories! xoxo
Awwwwww. I want a homestead. with corn and miniature cows (mostly mini zebus) and wholesome childhoods and all that….
I love the little bare feet and jean shorts, such great photos! The sisters are looking adorable!
SUCH CUTE PICTURES! And why the devil is it still so hot in Iowa?! Shouldn't things be cooling down a little by now?
*muck, not much
I grew up on a tiny sliver of land along the coast – the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Cornfields and soybeans are rampant there too, but of course not the acres and acres around you. There isn't enough land for that! I loved it when the corn was taller than me. At 5'8" that doesn't happen every year, but when I was a child those stalks felt giant. I loved it. Our tiny field and garden held no danger of ever getting lost, but the acres of forest and swampland around us? Different story. We loved tromping through the swamp with friends, who invariable ended up with at least one leg up to the knee in much, not being familiar with where to step. I loved my childhood so much.
Your girls are so cute! But as a fellow Iowan, I feel like I should caution you from teaching your children to play in a cornfield. There have been cases where children have lost their sense of direction and gotten lost. I am also surrounded by soybean and corn fields and always remind my kids they are not to play in the cornfields.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120707/LIFE/307060059/Kilen-Community-rallies-when-girl-wanders-into-cornfield
This is just one example. I would hate for one of your beautiful children to go through a similar experience.