Pumpkin Patch

Today Caleb and I took the girls to the pumpkin patch at the Townsend House. It was fun! Audrey loved looking at all the pumpkins and really spent a lot of time looking at all of them. Initially, she wanted to take a lot of them home with us. We explained to her that we were purchasing two.....one for her and one for Abby. She was okay with that as long as she was able to pick out both. It did not bother Abby one bit! She wasn't really into the pumpkins, but she did love being able to run around outside. After some time, Abby started to like the pumpkins, but only because she thought they were balls. (Abby LOVES balls and it forever stealing Audrey's Strawberry Shortcake ball out of her room). She eventually became frustrated because she was not able to pick the "balls" (pumpkins) up.

Audrey had an easy time picking out Abby's pumpkin. She decided Abby needed a baby pumpkin because Abby is a baby (sounds reasonable to me). It took a little bit longer for her to pick out the one she wanted for herself. She finally decided on one with bumps on it (I am sure there is a technical name for the bumps, but I don't know it). She told us she liked it because it has the chicken pox and she wanted to bring it home and take care of it because it is sick. So sweet!! (She has been telling us for the last two years that she wants to be a doctor!).

On the ride home, Audrey asked us what she needed to do to take care of the pumpkin. I told her she didn't have to do anything. All we have to do is enjoy it. She wasn't quite satisfied with that answer so she said, "I think all we have to do to take care of it is to love it." Such a precious little girl!

Audrey checking out the pumpkin before making her final decision

Abby looking at all the pumpkins thinking they were balls for her to play with