Pumpkins! Or Lack Thereof...

We have a great "pumpkin patch" across the street from our neighborhood, although it's not really a patch, per se. It's actually just a farm with a bunch of trailers that they fill with pumpkins, gourds, and squash. I love it because it's close and because it operates on the honor system, and it's not all that often that you can simultaneously shop for large gourds and have your faith in your humanity restored.

Graydon first: highly skeptical

Yesterday we took our little pumpkins over there to get the obligatory "kids with pumpkins" pictures. It was a good plan, in theory, but in practice there were no pumpkins left except for one trailer full of mini pumpkins. Apparently there was a large demand for ginormous squash this year, but small was so last year.

He warmed up to it pretty quickly, decorating trends notwithstanding

We finally "persuaded" Ads to sit up there, by pretty much flinging her in the cart next to her brother.

Not ones to be daunted by mere failure, we plopped the kids in the trailers on top of the mini pumpkins...no doubt that was very comfortable... and tried to snap a few shots to prove that we are as appreciative of fall as any other Pinterest crazed parents out there.

It was not really that successful, either in terms of pumpkin buying (nil) or good pictures obtained (also nil). 

Oh well. There's always the local grocery store?

Don't even think about it, Mom!