Spooky Pumpkins

Don't you love the fall? P & L posed the question "Are you one of the Autumn People?" I answered a resounding "Yes." And coincidentally won this book for doing so:Thanks P & L!!

And if you think you have seen autumn splendor, then you need to make a trip to Oregon. (I know this blog is a love affair with Oregon. Sorry. Deal.) The leaves are turning copper and yellow and orange, outlined with the green of all the pine trees. And it the morning, a mist hangs over everything. It is spectacular.

On Saturday we (with the assistance and guidance of Ms. 5) took the kids to the Baggenstos Farm and Pumpkin Patch.

This in Noel's face on the way to the Pumpkin Patch:Poor little tortured boy.

Who loves funny pictures where you put your heads through things? I do!

There were lots of fun things for kids to do including Pumpkin Bowling. Dee-lightful.
Do you see the little dance of joy at having knocked over some pins?

We loaded into the hay wagon and headed off to pick our pumpkins.

Mine was a big one that was sort of green and orange. Lovely. Jonah promptly picked out the ugliest, most misshapen sideways pumpkin I have ever seen, as he is want to do.
Noel almost immediately started calling out for a Baby Pumpkin. "Baby Pumpkin! Where are you?" Unfortunately in the actual patch, there were no little pumpkins - but we did find one once we got back to the farm store.

And tonight, we carved. Anyone know if pumpkins carved on a Tuesday night will last until Friday? Let's see. Jonah and Noel were too grossed out by the seeds and guts so I got to do all the gutting. (De-gutting? What is the verb here?)
And all of the carving...Because who wants to give a knife to the 3 year old and tell him to stab something? Not me. We did leave baby pumpkin unscathed and Noel felt good about that. Here are the results.
Spooky! Happy Halloween!

For more fun Halloween reading, check out P & L, Tookie, Kacy and The Craig Report. And go see this play. Because I can't and it makes me sad.