After spending some time watching Brandon and the girls play various carnival type games, Nick took charge of Laedyn and spent a good amount of time in the toddler area. 
Master fisherman Spider-Brandon 
He caught a Hot Wheels car, much to his delight!
There was a "hay wagon" set up for photo opportunities. Brandon rarely turns down one of those! 
Brandon also got his face painted - with a spider of course... 
Other attractions included mini golf putting, ring toss, tennis, bounce houses, bowling, balloon animals, cotton candy and a cake walk. I participated in the cake walk (my very first one) and actually won a cake. I let Brandon choose and he picked out a plate containing four star shaped banana breads. They were delicious.
Laedyn wanted to get started on pumpkin #2. She tried so hard to pick it up & was very frustrated that the pumpkin was so terribly heavy...
jack o'lantern designed by Brandon:
One of the local elementary schools built this recycle sculpure. Brandon was obviously impressed.
Outside of the theater, there was a peaceful little garden with benches. I hoped to get a lovely picture of well behaved, serenely smiling, decorous siblings ... this was the best of the bunch. At least they are happy! 
Brandon got to do some crafts on "Pumpkin Hill." First he made a hobo sack on a stick which had a delicious Jolly Rancher inside.
After the hobo sack project, Brandon got to be more creative and use markers, glue and construction paper to create a paper bag puppet. This is the scarecrow he made. After doing the crafts, he told us "the Fall Festival wasn't so boring after all" ... yes he did say it just like that too.
While Brandon was busy crafting, Laedyn checked out the pumpkins. She was excited to be able to touch and carry them around.
Climbing on haybales wasn't bad either... 
An unusual moment of introspection!
Brandon made a new friend - Daisy the Scarecrow. We ran into her several times during our visit & Brandon didn't ever want to let her continue her wanderings. He REALLY liked Daisy & had to be pried away from her on several occasions.
See ... I let Nick have the camera from time to time!
This little canopy is near the performance stage. Performers were amplified, but the lake really allowed the music to reach every corner of the property in an unobtrusive manner. I look forward to going back again just for the music and ambiance!
After wandering around the Wildwood grounds and seeing all that the Fall Festival had to offer, we took over a deck with a table and let the kids play. It was very relaxing. The weather was beautiful, the music surrounded us as it echoed over the lake, and the kids were content. Music soothes the savage beasts??? 
At the far end of the lake is a little pavilion where people can sit and enjoy the view. It had stairs that lead directly into the water - I guess you can dangle your feet into the lake if you want. We preferred to simply watch the schools of little fish darting around under the surface.
On our way out we stopped near the entrance where they had a tractor set up for people to climb on and have their pictures taken. Brandon climbed up all by himself and refused to let us help him...
He didn't mind having Laedyn come up and join him for a picture once he'd had a few moments up there all by himself. She was pretty excited by the experience too, and cried when it was time to get down & head home.
While getting his hair cut, Brandon was entertained by a flatscreen TV playing Bee Movie, bubbles and his choice of animal crackers or a sucker.
Before disembarking, Brandon gave the propeller a good spin. Doesn't he look much better with a nice short haircut???
I think she liked the petting zoo area best even though the petting part is temporarily shut down. This goose was just randomly hanging out in a pen alone, I don't think he really belonged there. Laedyn seemed to resent me trying to get her to look at the camera...she was much more interested in the goose.
She deperately wanted to pet this billy goat. He wasn't so sure about her though.
I like the ponys and donkeys. They weren't as fascinating to Laedyn as the goats, goose and sheep. I wonder why?
Brandon got all excited about the photo op cut outs & wanted his picture taken with all of them.
Laedyn wanted to participate in the cut-out photo op too, I'm not so sure about Nick...
A far as Laedyn was concerned ALL animal, real or not, were amazing. She was so excited to see this lion and kept turning around to make sure I was following.
Sitting on a bench to have her picture taken was not Laedyn's idea of fun. I had hoped for a good shot for the holiday cards, but it wasn't meant to be that day!
Little Rock Zoo upgraded the bear exhibit so you really get up close & personal with the bears. I'm always amazed at how long their claws are. Someone needs to trim those suckers! Sometimes they rear up and put their feet on the wall - it's rather intimidating, but they didn't even seem to notice we were there that day. 
The zoo is ramping up for Boo at the Zoo. Brandon loves the pumpkins ... they're just about the only Halloween decoration they had pulled out so far.
This lizard was at Laedyn's level - she thought that was pretty cool.
When we went to the Rainbow Lorikeet exhibit, she didn't quite know what to think of a bird on Daddy's shoulder. I really think the birds freaked her out. 
We happened to be there during feeding time and you can buy little cups of necter to feed the birds yourself. Of course we got one for Brandon, but the birds made him nervous flying around is head. I wound up feeding most of it to the birds myself.
By the time we had spent 5 minutes in the Lorikeet Exhibit, Laedyn was done in. Brandon took my camera while I was feeding the birds, and he captured this shot. Nick took Laedyn out of the building and let her roam free until Brandon & I were ready to leave. Then we went home and BOTH kids crashed for 3 hours ... it was beautiful!
