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November 02, 2008

Halloween Day

For a long time now, we've been talking how fun it would be to put the baby in a pumpkin. And so on Halloween Day, we headed out in search of a really big one. There is a "pick-your-own" farm just outside of town, but when we got there, the pumpkins were lined up in rows, waiting for adoption. We found the right one immediately and were particularly pleased to find it was on sale, on account of the fact that the time for carving pumpkins was rapidly coming to a close.

We loaded it into the car.

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And drove it home. On the way home, we stopped at Geno's, the place where we get our car fixed, which also doubles as a dealership. We did not stop on account of an ailing car. Rather, we were compelled by the sign advertising free cabbages.

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That's right, Geno's was running a very special promotion on Halloween day: free cabbage to anyone who took the time to stop. We didn't even have to test drive a car or listen to a spiel about a timeshare.

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I love this town.

We took our free cabbage and headed home.

First, I cleaned the pumpkin.

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And then I put my baby inside.

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Things didn't go exactly as we had hoped. Apparently, the baby didn't think it was fun to sit inside a slimy pumpkin. We decided to let them have a bit more time to get acquainted. First Alden looked into the pumpkin.

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Then she crawled on top of the pumpkin.

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At which point she gave it a purposeful kiss.

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Sensing that the relationship had gotten too serious too quickly, she then crawled away from the pumpkin

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It seemed like the perfect time to put her in the pumpkin again. The second effort was much more successful.

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It was clear that she wanted to say nice things to the pumpkin.

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Things like, "Wow, it's so great to be in here." Or, "Orange you glad I'm sitting inside of you?"

In fact, she got so comfortable, we worried that she would not be willing to come back out.

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Eventually, though, it came time to light the pumpkin, which necessitated the extraction of the baby. Who was quickly dispatched to the tub.

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At the risk of redundancy, I'll show the pumpkin again.

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Though Halloween has come and gone, we've left the pumpkin glowing on the porch the last few nights. It helps to ease the minor nostalgia I already feel for the baby's first Halloween, already gone. We probably won't be able to find a big enough pumpkin next year.

It's galling how she grows.

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Posted by bogenamp at November 2, 2008 11:18 PM