picking the perfect pumpkin

On a gorgeously warm Friday evening, we took Henry to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins this year. Henry scoured the whole patch, looking for the perfect pumpkin. We tried to be flexible and let him pick whichever one he wanted. But that proved to be a little overwhelming for a two year old. So we walked, and walked, and walked....and Henry picked the most unusual looking pumpkins. Of course, the ones that were different from the regular boring old orange ones.

Like this bumpy one.....

And this grey one.....

And this yucky one.....

As flexible as we were trying to be, we weren't going to pay for a yucky, smashed, guts-coming-out-one. So we gave a little guidance, and he touched them all, to find just the right one.

Success!

A little help from daddy to pull it up

And we rode home with a fantastic pumpkin!

We wanted Henry to pick out a pumpkin for new baby
a cute little one
The pumpkin patch had lots of fun activities of course, like a hay ride through the corn field.
Probably the best part was this jumping/bouncing pillow. Henry loved it last year so we knew it would be a big hit with him this year. It was a little more crowded, but he did bounce for awhile.

Gabe took him for a spin on this big pedal car.

Henry's favorite activity this year was the big slide. He went down all by himself, ran around, and then climbed the stairs by himself. I stayed at the bottom and Gabe stayed at the stairs, and he ran that loop a million times, until it was too dark and we had to go home. He slept pretty good that night :)
We'll be carving and painting our pumpkins tomorrow!