10.02.2007

Pickin' Perfect Pumkins





We embarked on the old familiar tradition of the family vacation on Saturday! It's been so much fun. On the way to meet Jeremy's family in Arkansas, we stopped at a pumpkin patch near Little Rock. It was a fabulous place to stretch our legs and make a memory (not to mention, take a bunch of pictures! Isn't that why we do these things?)
Young Skywalker was very focused on finding several perfect pumpkins to load into our already stuffed car. He grabbed a wagon and started loading it like a grocery cart. We had to reign him in reminding him that we still had three hours left and not enough room for these big ol' pumpkins. We settled on five smaller varieties and they are gracing the back porch of our condo as I write.
Beauty Queen had her heart set on taking full advantage of the fact that she was out of her car seat. She insisted on walking the entire time. Only second in importance to walking around was checking out the pumpkins... looking at them, drumming on them, and even occasionally tasting them.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's so much fun to go to pumkin patches. We went once for a Kindergarten field trip, each child was allow to pick out one pumpkin each. They were so thrilled to pick their own that it was taking forever and we have to get on the bus and leave, so I had to start counting. I said "the bus is leaving in 10 minutes so I am counting to 20 you need a pumpkin by then or I pick one for you." They all got their pumpkin, even the orchard worker was laughing. She couldn't believe how much time they were putting in to decide on their pumpkin. :-)