The Story of the Squawky Little Pumpkin...

It was spooky, stormy Halloween morning when there was squawk outside in the woods surrounding the little yellow house.  The young, attractive couple that lived in the house looked at each other in fear and confusion...  "What could cause such a noise?!" The wife said to her handsome husband. "Heaven my love, I have no idea.  Didn't sound like any animal I know!  We should go outside and investigate" he responded...  the young, attractive couple bundled up in their coziest of cozy attire and took their first tentative steps outside on this brisk morning.  The wind was blowing, making the trees howl, a dog barked ferociously in the distance, and the fog rolled in down the driveway and obscured their vision.

Again!  There was squawk, it was louder and closer than before.  The loving couple grasped each other!  "We must be brave my darling and seek out the source of the sqwuak!" the wife exclaimed.  They held hands and walked delicately over the fallen leaves of autumn.  And out of the corner of his eye the husband glimpsed a FLASH of orange.  He looked closer, peering through the fog as thick as pea soup and the woods as dark as midnight, what is that? what could it be?  Oh My, it is a little pumpkin sitting alone by a tree!

The wife then saw what her husband had spotted.  She immediately burst into tears and ran towards the helpless gourd.  "Oh Little Pumpkin!  You are the sweetest pumpkin I have ever seen!  How did you get here?  You must be so cold! so lonely!"  The pumpkin said nothing just titled her little head slightly askew, squawked another feeble squawk, and leaned further into the giant tree.  The woman continued, "Come inside precious little pumpkin.  You do not belong in the woods.  You belong where there is warmth, food, and love".  The husband deftly scooped up the little pumpkin in his strong, manly arms and they made their way back into the little yellow house.

They gently laid the little pumpkin on their big bed and snuggled the pumpkin into the decadent blankets to warm her from the biting cold...

 The pumpkin immediately started to smile and giggle and shriek with delight.  Though the little pumpkin could say no words the young, attractive couple knew the little pumpkin was happy...  So they asked the little pumpkin, "oh sweet little pumpkin, won't you stay?  Live with us and we can be a family!"  And with that, the pumpkin smiled her biggest smile, squawked her loudest squawk, and shrieked her highest shriek... The pumpkin had found a home. 

At that moment, like a moth turns into a beautiful butterfly, the little pumpkin shed her thick orange skin to reveal the sweetest, most beautiful baby the world had ever seen.  At that moment, the young, attractive couple looked at her and then looked at each other, and they knew that from that day forward she would always be "Daddy's Little Pumpkin"

...And they lived happily ever after...

The End

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!