Do you ever wonder what kids are thinking?

As we got out of the car at Vazant's Fruit Stand (and Pumpkin Patch this time of year).... Makenzie kept thinking that we were going to buy the plastic pumpkin that you get to put your candy in. We kept telling her, while on the way, that we were going to buy REAL pumpkins...

So, she gets out... spots the wagons.... and then looks a little farther and sees large selection of pumpkins in small "patches" throughout the land in front of us. She then realizes these are real pumpkins. She kept saying that she wanted to buy her "a yittle one"... and "a big-uh one for mommy and a big-uh one for daddy, too".

Wow. She was overwhelmed by the large selection. Then, before long, she started realizing that we were actually going to go home with a pumpkin (or 2 or 3) for her! So, she started looking for "a yittle one". She went to a rather large one.... and then over to some smaller ones. Andy and I found a few smaller ones in one section, and started to point them out. We would point directly to one... and she would go to a different one. Then, when we said, "no - that one"... she said "where?" as if we could just say "the pumpkin right there". She didn't seem to be able to distinguish between a little bigger or a little smaller pumpkin. So, we found a few small ones, laid them all side-by-side, and said which one would be better? She said "I want this one, and this one and this one". Of course, we were planning to go home with ONE for her.

And, at the moment that we THOUGHT we had picked one out, daddy spotted another section with small pumpkins. And, it all began again.

She had in her mind what she wanted. And, after talking about what we wanted to "paint" on the pumpkin (because she is so young, we will paint this year).... she decided a PINK smiley face. Now the search begins for the smiley face that she wants. God help us! :)