The Kriz Family

The Pumpkin Patch

We took our annual trip to Shaw Farms in search of the Great Pumpkin.  Lukas had a good time there last year, and we figured that being a year older, he’d really have a blast.  They have all sorts of decorations, little houses and boats for kids to play on, and of course, a huge selection of pumpkins.  How fun!  Boy were we wrong.  There was this big jack-in-the-box thing, which was really just a huge plywood box with one of those inflatable decorations (you know, the ones that have the air pump running all the time) sticking up from it.  Lukas took one look at that and clung to me the rest of the time.  When we managed to coax him to go look at pumpkins or play, he wouldn’t go far, and never really took his eyes off the big bad jack-in-the-box.  Poor Lukas!  What’s funny is that as soon as we got in the car to go home, he started talking about how he had fun with the jack-in-the-box.  Hmmm.  I think all this stemmed from the previous week’s traumatic experience at Kroger – there was a “scary witch” and an inflatable cat decoration at the front of the store, and those gave him a pretty good scare for some reason…  He still talks about the scary witch, and even though we tell them they are just decorations (which he seems to understand), he is still scared.

Anyway, we did manage to capture a few moments from our outing.

This was actually a big yawn, but looks like a scary face

Come on Lukas, lift that pumpkin up and put it in the wagon already

That’s a heavy wagon full of pumpkins

Granny is helping with that heavy wagon

Now we’ll load up some mini pumpkins, and we’re all done