This pumpkin gettin’ is serious business.

The Inspection process begins.

stella pumpkin inspection

Initiate phase I of the Pumpkin Durability Test

stella pumpkin perch

Initiate phase II of the Pumpkin Durability Test.

stella pumpkin sleeve

After running back and forth across the pumpkin patch 674 times, filling every possible nook and cranny of clothing with dirt, and putting a whole host of pumpkins through thier paces, it is time for a cold one.

stella done pumkining

Confessions of a mother: I think my daughter might be part rat.

I defy you to explain why else she would:

  • grab a package of andouille sausage from her perch in the grocery cart, and proceed to chew a hole in it during the four seconds that we weren’t paying attention.
  • forage for food – usually wayward raisins – on the floor of the backseat of the car.
  • have an obsession with trying to bite Rosie.
  • eat the corner off the emergency ice-pack that we had fashioned out of a ziplock baggie and ice cubes.