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We went to the pumpkin patch (Circle S Farms) with our friends the Brunners on Saturday. They had lots of stuff for the kids to do there, including some farm animals to check out, a hay maze, a tractor to climb on, a barn that had huge hay bale ‘steps’ that led up to huge slides at the top of the barn. I lost count of how many times Nicholas helped Ally climb up to the top and took her down the slide on his lap. Of course we got to go on a hayride out to the pumpkin patch too. On the way out, we asked Ally what kind of pumpkin she was going to get. . big?. . .little? Ally said that she wanted one with eyes and a smile on it! LOL! Funny moment number two came when we were all out in the field looking for the ‘perfect’ pumpkin for her. She found one that she liked, picked it up by the stem and stood up. She then proceeded to squeal and drop it like a hot potato. “oohhh. .a bug!” She proceeded to reject many others that we showed her, though she did continue to look around by herself. She then went on to tell us that she was looking for a ‘clean one’! Keep in mind, we all have old shoes and boots on because it had rained most of last week. . .LOL! Clean was not in our vocabulary for this family outing! She finally picked a tiny little pumpkin and started carrying it around. I showed her yet another one (a relatively clean, more carve-able one) and she rejected it because the stem was ‘yucky’. I took a tissue out of my pocket and wrapped it around the ‘yucky’ stem. Liking that idea, she took the tissue off of my pumpkin and wrapped it around the stem of hers and we returned to the wagon. . . with a very small, relatively clean, not-very-carve-able, tissue wrapped pumpkin carried by our own pumpkin named Ally. 🙂