Your guide to activities and fun things to do with your preschoolers, toddlers and kids in Kansas City, KS

This is the time of year that tiny squash and Indian corn and pumpkins and all manner of tiny fall flora and fauna start showing up outside Hy-Vee and Price Chopper.  I don't know what it is about miniature food, but I have a deep-seated need to decorate with it.  And it's so cheap!

Try giving your preschooler a lesson in budgeting. Give him or her $3 and let your child carefully choose exactly which baby pumpkin will adorn his or her bedside table for a month or so.  Even better -- let your miniature person keep the change and see if he or she posesses the ability to delay gratification. 

Oh, who am I kidding?