meet sam

we have been talking a lot about fall around here. leaves, scarecrows, harvest. weston is fascinated with about anything that has to do with nature. i love learning with that boy! notice the word with. i spend a lot of time on the internet looking up answers to his questions. along those lines, w has been asking about pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns a bit this month. since moving here, i have felt a tinge of disappointment over the loss of the pumpkin patch tradition. the thought of carving one of the "gourds" here (i can't even call them pumpkins). never really crossed my mind... but a certain 4 1/2 year old convinced me that we don't really a fancy pumpkin patch to have some fall fun. meet our gourd-o-lantern, sam: