I’m experimenting with a new photo app, so the quality of the photos will be different. Hopefully I’ll figure it out, and the overall effect will be better. For whatever reason, I’m not really getting great photos with my iPhone. Bummer…

Every time we pass the big pumpkin patch on 9 mile rd. in front of St. Luke’s, Selah June notices the pumpkins and wants to stop. At the beginning of the week, when I had a little bit of flexibility in my schedule, I worked a trip in before we started our day at school and work. (I didn’t check on the hours of the pumpkin patch, and we almost had core meltdown. Luckily, they opened 15 minutes early.)

She was taken with all of the different types of pumpkins this year, and she particularly loved the little ones. And I saw her little OCD self come shining through. She wanted to “fix” all of them so that they were turned upright. This proved to be no small feat for the pumpkins in the center of the lot.

We’re at this stage where she doesn’t want to smile for the camera at all. You can try to bribe her, but she knows she’s being bribed. You can try to catch her mid-smile, but she’s faster than you can possibly be with the camera – or just obstructionist enough to purposefully not smile at anything while there is a phone camera pointed at her face. For that reason, this year’s first set of pumpkin patch pics are not stellar candids of her beautiful smile. Rather, they are Selah June in action… and quite vibrant in her hot pink against the deep orange hue of a sea of tiny pumpkins.

This weekend, we’re planning on taking her to the corn maze in Milton. We made that trip when she was a little tiny baby, but we haven’t attempted it since. It’s bound to be great fun, but I’m also bound to not have any worthy photos to show from it. Wish me luck!