The day before the boy was born I knew we had to get our pumpkin patch trip in or we never would. The only types of pumpkin patches I'd ever been to growing up were those that had a bunch of pumpkins pre-picked sitting on hay stacks for your choosing. This totally worked and it was always so fun to go and try to find the roundest, orangest, most perfect pumpkin.
Well here in MA, there are farms outside the city, tons of them. These farms are full of pick your own fruits and vegetables and around Halloween they are brimming with pumpkins.
Leon had just had an event he was in charge of that day, but I insisted that we leave as soon as possible because the patches always closed around 5pm. This mean no time for a clothes change. But doesn't he look so good in a suit? Maybe not the best choice for mission: find the perfect pumpkin, but we did what we could.
Ellie stuffed her face with left over Papa Johns (her favorite) from Leon's event and fell right alseep on our ride out to the farm. This left for quality Mr and Mrs time riding in the car. We mostly talked about the imminent arrival of the boy and of course politics :) When we got there, Ellie was so excited to see the baby cows. One was named Trick and the other Treat. She wanted to touch their shiny, wet noses. She was even able to feed them.
After we loved on the cows a bit, mission: find the perfect pumpkin began. We carted Ellsie away in her little wagon and headed out to the patch. This was much different from the southern California pumpkin patches I described earlier. It was dirty and thorny and all the pumpkins were still on the vine. Leon's attire was a bit of a hindrance, which left the dirty work to Mama and Elle. We pushed through all of the pokies to find our perfect little pumpkin. Ellie loved it and gave it a big hug and a kiss. When we checked out the lady gave us a little white pumpkin for baby Jet. Ellie was so excited to give this to the baby haha. I love her.
Well, we now have our little pumpkin from straight off the vine that we can't wait to carve and light up.
Happy Halloween.
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