Sunday, October 11, 2009

the pumpkin "hatch"


Mackenzie proudly shows off the special "colonial" pumpkin we picked ourselves this weekend. The colonial pumpkin is special because the seeds were brought over from England with the New World settlers, so this what the orginal Thanksgiving pumpkins looked like, until pumpkins were engineered to be more "jack o'lantern"-ish for Halloween. Daddy couldn't have been more proud of her pick and it's history, and the fact I absorbed all those pumpkin tidbits. :)


When Mackenzie was asked if she needed help carrying her pumpkin to the car, she very proudly said "no" and carefully did it herself.

She also enjoyed helping clean the dirt off her pumpkin (and hands too!) All and all, a good day at the pumpkin "hatch".

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