Rotten Pumpkin

We took Jameson to the Pumpkin Patch on the 9th and bought a giant perfect pumpkin to put him in to take some adorable "Baby's First Halloween" photos in. So today I thought would be the perfect day to get my pictures taken and carve up the pumpkin. I put it off because I wanted the pumpkin to last until Halloween, and everyone knows uncarved pumpkins last forever. Well for the past couple of weeks our perfect pumpkin has been just hanging out on our front porch. So I have Jake pick up the giant melon and bring it to the back patio so I can prep it for our little photo shoot while Jameson is taking a little nap. Come to find out the whole bottom of the pumpkin is rotten! I thought well maybe it isn't THAT bad. So I proceed to cut open a hole in the top big enough for my monster child to fit into.... and boy was I wrong. The entire inside of the pumpkin was covered in nasty black mold.
I was so infuriated! No way was I going to put my child in a moldy ass pumpkin. We ended up calling the Pumpkin Patch and explaining our little situation. They explained to us that something to do with the early rain and weirdly hot days made alot of their crop go bad. They said please come back and pick out a new one, no questions asked.
Annoyed but with a solution in view we headed back to the Pumpkin Patch to replace our pumpkin. Man, oh, man. My fuse was shortened very quickly as we were searching through pumpkins that did not even compare to the beauty we had came home with just a mere couple weeks before. These pumpkins were puny and ugly to boot!
After hunting for 30 minutes I gave into the fact that the perfect pumpkin was sitting in the bottom of our green waste container at home and there was not going to be a replacement. I gave in and we brought home this hideous monstrosity that needs to be propped up in order to stand. I'm not even excited about the pumpkin pictures anymore. *sigh* We shall see if I even feel the desire to try and make this joke of a pumpkin work before Halloween.


At least before the death of the perfect pumpkin we got some cute pictures next to it.