Today Peter, Alethea and I went to a local farm to pick out Alethea’s Halloween pumpkin.

We looked through piles of pumpkins:

Peter suggested this one:

But in the end Alethea picked two that were just the right size to carry around by herself:

I told Peter that we should count our blessings.  Next year she’ll probably want the biggest (translate, most expensive) pumpkin in the place.

But for now, she’s easy to please and once she made her choices, she even consented to sit still for a minute and have her picture taken:

How sweet is that?