Last Thursday my wife had the day off from work, so we set out to have some fall family fun. While it hasn’t cooled off all that much here in Charlotte, we thought it was about time to go find little man a pumpkin. After nap time was over we set off to grab a nice lunch and attempt to get a complete meal into him before beginning our little adventure.
Arriving at a local farm filled with pumpkins it was pretty clear that we were more excited than he was at the beginning. I set him down amongst the bigger pumpkins and he was at first quite tentative, feeling out his new environment.
Not too much later, however, he was swiftly navigating his way through the pumpkin patch, touching everything in sight. Since these fine specimens weighed about as much as he does, I did what I could to steer him towards a much bigger patch of small pumpkins that would be more his speed. It took a little effort to get him past the puppies that inhabited the farm, but eventually he relented and sped ahead of us.
At the entrance to the grouping of smaller pumpkins was a maze made out of baled hay stacked two high. He motored right through the it and made it nearly all the way through before turning around and high tailing it back to where he had entered. We played around in the maze for a few more minutes until something else caught his attention.
Racing out towards the vast array of small pumpkins, we were pretty sure one of the little pumpkins had caught his eye. Watching as he stumbled through the piles of pumpkins, we anxiously awaited him finding the one that was just right for him.
Much to our dismay he raced past all of the pumpkins and kept going right towards another bright orange object that happened to be sitting in the adjacent field: a construction traffic cone.
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