The Story of a Little Boy and His Pumpkin

Yep, you read it correctly, this post is about a pumpkin! I know that it is July, but for the last few months our house has had a lot of excitement centered around a pumpkin. I guess it all started one day late in the Spring when Jeff and Luke went to Lowe's to get some things for our garden. Not only did they get somethings for our garden, but Luke ran in the house to show me his $0.99 pumpkin seed they just bought. The growing plan as described on the cup was to plant it in this little bathroom size cup and keep it in the house until it starts growing and then move it outside and plant it in our garden. I thought this all sounded great in theory, but did I actually ever think it would grow a pumpkin, absolutely not.

Well, after a few weeks of Luke watering it, talking to it and watching it on his bed side table, it FINALLY started to grow in the cup. So, Luke and Jeff transferred it to our little garden. Again, I thought for sure this would kill the pumpkin. Because seriously this 99 cent pumpkin seed would never make it from the cup to the garden and eventually turn into a pumpkin, would it?

I don't think that a day passed over the next few months that Luke did not care for his pumpkin plant. And then, one day Luke came running back into the house and was jumping up and down screaming he could see a green pumpkin on his vine. We all ran out to see it and sure enough, there was a little green pumpkin on the vine that was about the size of a golf ball. None of us could believe it!

Over many days and weeks, the little green pumpkin grew and grew and eventually started to turn orange. Yep, Luke had done it! He had grown a PUMPKIN!!!! In the end, Jeff talked Luke into cutting it from the vine because it was starting to get soft on one side. So, they cut it and Luke enjoyed having the pumpkin back inside the house with him for a few days. He would even sleep with it on his pillow, too sweet!

Finally, over the weekend, Jeff thought it was time to carve our pumpkin because it was starting to turn bad. So, we spent our July Saturday night carving a pumpkin. I did not know how Luke would take it seeing his pumpkin being cut open, but he did ok.

Needless to say, this little 99 cent pumpkin has brought a lot of FUN to our family. Hope you enjoy the video!