Pumpkins

Sunday 10-23-11

A little tired, we headed out to church, returned for a LONG naps for ALL and then drove down to Mount Jackson to get our traditional $30 a wagonful of pumpkins!  Sadly, the late rain this year rotted most of their pumpkins and we went home with 5 tiny, gourd pumpkins and 1 green medium sized pumpkin.  Then we went to the corn maize, where we enjoyed the slides and never went into the corn.  On the way home, we picked up some pumpkins from Walmart (they only had medium-sized ones) and then stopped off at the farmers’ market to get large pumpkins.  After paying, I noticed the Indian Corn and remembered how fun my sister’s kids had using tools to pry the kernels off the cob, so I picked up two and went back inside to pay.  I only set Ellie down for a second, right beside me… taking my eyes off her for the millisecond that it takes to pull out my wallet.  When I looked back down at her, she was already 4 bites into a lovely, yellow apple.  The owner was very nice, thought Ellie was cute and let her keep the apple free of charge.  Sure, this is how it starts… an apple today, the National Treasury tomorrow!

Again, Ellie opted to sleep in the toddler bed, but this time… she slept though the night!!!!