Our annual trip to the pumpkin patch was disappointing this year. As usual the girls played on every tractor there, but this year they found baby wheelbarrows to push around. (So cute for pictures! ) But maybe they didn't realize that it was FREEZING and most of the pumpkins were rotted into mush! Granted it was 2 days before Halloween and we got them for next to nothing because of it...but still.
We came home to some homemade creamy chicken noodle soup and thawed out a little bit before digging right in. The girls loved getting messy and of course competing to see you could get their pumpkin inside the "cleanest".
We did have one minor set back with little Bode. He went crawling along too fast and slid on the kitchen floor, splitting his lip. He really was fine, but his poor sisters were terrified! Paige quit her pumpkin carving to write him a note that said, "Bode, I hope you FELL well soon. I SUR do ADOR you." What a sister!
This year we had this "GREAT" idea of buying a pattern book with tools that was "easy". False advertising at its best! What it really should have said was, "Mommy...you trace and cut out all the pumpkins with this itty, bitty saw that looks like a toothpick with a handle, all the while blocking out the whining of the children who "want to do it" yet snap the blades right off." Yea...NOT a family friendly activity. Although I did let them light their own...which turned out to be quite the popular chore!
BUT...after literally HOURS...we got some pretty awesome pumpkins!
Paige (upper left corner): hers was by far the hardest. You really can't tell...but hers is a little boy scared in his bed because of the giant eyeball peering through the window.
and Mommy...got her own because it was carved many hours later after the kids were in bed, the pumpkin seeds were sorted from the pumpkin goo, the goo was wiped off the fronts of the cabinets and the floor and I could quietly carve in peace.
HAPPY BELATED HALLOWEEN!
We came home to some homemade creamy chicken noodle soup and thawed out a little bit before digging right in. The girls loved getting messy and of course competing to see you could get their pumpkin inside the "cleanest".
We did have one minor set back with little Bode. He went crawling along too fast and slid on the kitchen floor, splitting his lip. He really was fine, but his poor sisters were terrified! Paige quit her pumpkin carving to write him a note that said, "Bode, I hope you FELL well soon. I SUR do ADOR you." What a sister!
This year we had this "GREAT" idea of buying a pattern book with tools that was "easy". False advertising at its best! What it really should have said was, "Mommy...you trace and cut out all the pumpkins with this itty, bitty saw that looks like a toothpick with a handle, all the while blocking out the whining of the children who "want to do it" yet snap the blades right off." Yea...NOT a family friendly activity. Although I did let them light their own...which turned out to be quite the popular chore!
BUT...after literally HOURS...we got some pretty awesome pumpkins!
Paige (upper left corner): hers was by far the hardest. You really can't tell...but hers is a little boy scared in his bed because of the giant eyeball peering through the window.Daddy (upper right corner): the fiery eyeball face
Claire (lower left corner): poor girl goes by Boo more often than her own name...so it was only right that she get that one
Bode (lower right): opposite day...he is so NOT a monster...but it was cute like him!
and Mommy...got her own because it was carved many hours later after the kids were in bed, the pumpkin seeds were sorted from the pumpkin goo, the goo was wiped off the fronts of the cabinets and the floor and I could quietly carve in peace.
HAPPY BELATED HALLOWEEN!
2 comments:
Wow!! That looks and sounds like a lot of work! Yeah, I hate it when things are advertised as being so easy and then they are not!! But, the pumpkins turned out really cool! I just always can't believe how grown up everyone is looking. Especially Paige. Where is time flying?!!!?
I had no idea the mad pumpkin skills you have! Those pumpkins looked amazing! You are so clever!
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