The pumpkin patch

We finally made it to the pumpkin patch. I had wanted to go earlier in the month in case our little girl showed up early, but life got in the way. She still hasn't arrived, so this morning we set off to get a pumpkin.

At the Pickin Patch we took a hayride out to the pumpkin fields.  There were tons of pumpkins to choose from. You can see Heublein Tower is in the distance.  I wanted to go hike up to it afterward, but Ryan said he's not ready for the baby to come and didn't want me hiking up the mountain.  He's lucky we didn't have the stroller for Ethan or else I would have gone for it, I'm ready for this baby to come out!

It took a while for Ethan to get interested in the pumpkins. At first all he wanted to do is run over to the big digger at the edge of the fields.

Actually, the only time he was interested in the pumpkins is when he could throw dirt on them.

He was a very dirty little boy including dirt on his face on the ride back.

After we got back, we got ready to carve the pumpkin.  Here is hopefully the last pregnant shot of me!

Ethan surprisingly did not like scooping out the pumpkin guts.  Ryan had to do it since I don't like to either.  After it was all cleaned out, Ethan took the scooper and pretended scoop out more.  He would even shake the empty scooper each time he took it out of the pumpkin.  He still managed to get quite messy.

 While Ethan napped and Ryan mowed the lawn, I was in charge of carving the pumpkin.  Here is the final product.  Ethan loves it and got mad when we blew out the candle.  The three of us had a great time today but we can't wait to be family of four!