Kinder Gardens Entry {Week 20.}

I'll start by saying that I didn't get our artwork finished...  Sorry.  I'll shoot for next week's post. 

Cooler temperatures made their way to Oklahoma this week with a major cool down from 103 degrees on Monday to the 80's on Tuesday with 4.5 inches of rain!  So we spent more time outside this week.

Some riding in the wagon...  

Ella looks like she's not happy, but that's her completely-and-totally-content-with-riding-right-here face.  

Miles' "fort" is becoming quite the hideout.  The sweet potato vines have been the perfect thing for it.  They've withstood the heat, drought and bugs.  I'll definitely count on them for covering in the future.  

When we're in our garden space, the little one is the master of escape.  She goes the exact opposite way that I want her to without fail.  

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Once upon a time there was a beautiful little pumpkin.  

We loved on it every day.  Squishing squash bugs.  Watering.  

It grew to be...

the size of an apple.  

One day, a dad-gum squash vine borer decided to take up residence in this little pumpkin's vine.  

With the vine clearly dead and the little pumpkin feeling a bit squishy, we decided to go ahead and pick it.

It was very "et-citing".

And we were proud of our cute little pumpkin.  

Loved it, in fact.  

We had dreamed all along of sitting the little pumpkin on our front porch.  The pumpkin that Miles grew from seed.  Right next to the mum we've been nurturing since April... from a teeny tiny little start in our flower bed.  

So even though fall is officially still several weeks away, and even though the pumpkin isn't quite as big as I had envisioned, and even though the mum hasn't bloomed, the old chair on our porch proclaims "Bring it, cooler weather!" with the tiny little pumpkin Miles grew from seed.

Go check out what other contestants are doing this week at:

THE INADVERTENT FARMER'S

KinderGarden's Contest