Pumpkins?!?!

Noticed what you see in the top photo only a couple days ago.  To me, the leaves look like those of  a pumpkin plant which was interesting to me since I don't remember planting any pumpkin seeds last year. While noticing all this, Dale was taking off up the alley for a bike ride and our neighbor Steve was complimenting his gams saying they looked as good as Lance Armstrong's (and without the steroids!). I called Steve over asking him if he knew what a pumpkin plant looks like.  He said he did. He looked at the plant and said that if it wasn't pumpkin it was some other kind of squash. I told him it had to be pumpkin since I had some small pumpkins in the planters that were on this side of the house last fall. The squirrels had eaten the pumpkins and a seed must've dropped over the planter's edge.

Steve said that the actual pumpkin would grow where you see the bud in the top photo and the flower blooming  in the bottom picture. I'm excited! We've got our own little pumpkin patch! Now - how to keep those rascally squirrels away?!