Linvilla Orchards and Pumpkin Carving

This week Charlton and I, along with friends Hailey and Preston, braved the cold and ventured to a great farm called Linvilla Orchards so we could get Charlton a pumpkin. Its a really fun place with a fabulous play area full of wooden boats, ships, planes, trains, jungle gyms and slides; a corn maze; hayrides; a huge lot full of hundreds of pumpkins, gourds, and other fall goodies; and a country store stocked full of homemade foods.

We played around for about 20 minutes before heading over to the pumpkins. As soon as we walked in, Charlton ran over to a huge table of gourds and picked one and called it his pumpkin. We were laughing about it and I pointed him over to the hundreds and hundreds of real pumpkins he could chose. He would have nothing to do with them. He had his pumpkin and he didn't need anything else. I tried several times but he just wanted that gourd. Fine with me, whatever makes him happy. We then went over to the store and stocked up on cider, breads, pickles and best of all, apple spiced donuts a la Hailey.

Rob and I, but mostly me, really thought Charlton would like carving a pumpkin so we went and found one of the few left at Walmart. So now Charlton has a jack-o-lantern as well as a pumpkin gourd.


Every time we light the pumpkin Charlton wants to blow it out and then have us light it again. Its actually pretty hard to blow out when you are only two and he had to get really close. I guess the brightness of the light eventually got to be too much for him because he put on my sunglasses.