We finally made it to the pumpkin patch this year. A little late since we have been so busy! But they still had plenty of pumpkins left and plenty of fun. Aunt Gini was in town so she and Grammy came with us. Jacob was so excited...but just for the bounce houses. Kid is obsessed. But he agreed to find a pumpkin and take some pictures first. When we got there though he remembered they have a pumpkin catapult that you can do and he hasn't ever been able to do it for various reasons. But this year, we were there early enough, there wasn't a line, and he was big enough. So as soon as we got there he and Josh ran off to do that. Owen tried to follow but then got distracted by all the pumpkins. He loved the pumpkins. Big ones, small ones, whatever! He tried to take them all. We found a good pumpkin and Owen found a little pumpkin he wanted, then we went to watch Jacob launch his pumpkin. It was smashed in half and he thought it was so cool. A hay ride with grammy and Aunt Gini and a few pictures and Jacob was off to the bounce houses. While Jacob was bouncing Owen was busy with pumpkins. I think he got up to 4 in his hands at one point. He was carrying around one in each hand for most of the time and was taking all the little ones out to line up on the edge of the bin. We eventually had to distract and trick him into letting go of the pumpkins that we hadn't bought.
We didn't carve the pumpkin until Tuesday since it was hot over the weekend and we didn't want the pumpkin to get moldy before Halloween. Jacob was into it this year more and stuck his hand in the grab seeds and pumpkin guts out. Owen on the other hand wanted to stick his head in but had no interest in putting his hand in the pumpkin. We were able to carve the pumpkin outside for the first time in a few years since it was warm, so we went to the front porch. Of course that also meant both boys were doing other things too. So I mostly corralled Owen while Jacob and Josh worked on carving. Eventually Jacob ran off to play too, but the pumpkin got finished. We didn't get any pictures with the pumpkin that night, but will get some tonight. I have been trying to get better at juggling picture taking with toddler wrangling and preschool chasing. But I did get some of carving the pumpkin!
