It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

We have a small part of our yard that has been used as a small garden but this year we concentrated more on flowers instead. However, last year after Halloween I threw our pumpkin seeds in the little garden patch. In the spring, we found some rather large unknown leaves sproutin' "up through the ground like some bubblin' crude" (ok, not crude, but once I started that line I had to finish it...who knows the reference?). I almost pulled them out thinking they were weeds, but didn't get to it for a while. Rarely do I get to say this, but in this instance I was thankful for laziness! What a surprise and delight. Along with some weeds, we have the early stages of pumpkins!

By the way, when we celebrated our Family Day it was also the first time Buttons used chopsticks. She picked up some chicken and put it in her mouth on the very first try! Subsequent tries proved more difficult, but I thought it was kinda cool. Recently at Ik*a, I purchased chopsticks and spoons and it looks like we'll get to use them soon!