Pun'kin Picking

Last weekend we spent Sunday afternoon out at Chesterfield Berry Farms, participating in a typical American tradition - Pumpkin Picking! Because Sunday was my birthday, I was able to use this as leverage to convince Dennis this was the place to be on a Sunday afternoon... Not that he didn't have a good time once we got there.


They have lots of fun things to do for their Autumn Harvest Festival, although we "cheap-skated" it because Theron is still too small to participate in a lot of super-scary or super-rambunctious activities. We did have a lot of fun looking at the farm animals, playing in the straw pit, and "riding" the tractors. We also enjoyed watching the piggy races. Unfortunately, we lost a good portion of our life savings when we put an impulse bet on 'Baconator,' who only managed to come in fourth place.

At the end of the afternoon, we went on a hayride to a pumpkin patch, where Theron got to pick his first Halloween pumpkin. It was pretty cute because he kept saying, "Ba...? Ba...? Ba...?" He was truly amazed to see a whole field filled with all those "Balls."

This last picture is to show what happened when I tried to reason with Theron about what pumpkin he was allowed to take home. I tried to explain to him that it is not necessary for someone so small to have a pumpkin three times his size, especially when neither Daddy or I could carry it, and it was doubtful about whether it would fit in the car, but he would not listen to reason. Thankfully, I was able to utilize my amazing parental power of persuasion to change his mind. I call it "distraction." Really -- it works wonders on toddlers.

As a compromise, we settled on two smaller pumpkins, which we could actually carry, and headed home. I would say our first family pumpkin picking adventure was truly a success!