Pumpkin Night

Wednesday Night, we finally had some time and health to carve pumpkins. The kids designed their faces on the pumpkins and then Dad took the knife to the pumpkins and this wonderful evolution of art began. C-man, was really into getting in the pumpkin and digging out the inards. Miss-O, on the other hand, didn't want to touch the slimey stuff. Paul is the fastest carver there is and he carved each pumpkin in 5 min. flat! (We teased him it was from his fish filleting abilities!)

Miss-O did build up enough courage to touch the inards of the pumpkin, but immediately didn't like the feel of it. Maybe next year! Please note her shirt! It was "backwards" day. She likes to pick out her own outfits and this particular day, she put her shirt and pants on backwards. Like her cousin Jake a few years ago, she declared the day "backwards" day. Sorry folks if you didn't get the fashion memo!

C-man, enjoying the ooey-gooey mess! We saved about 1.5 cups of seeds and roasted them for the first time. (thanks Mom, for searching for the recipe on-line for me....since we didn't have access for awhile, ya, we'll get to that later.)

After three photo shots, this is the best that turned out.....they really were giddy about doing pumpkins, although this pic depicts other emotions!

Sitting them on the front steps and watching them glow!

C-man also took out the "kaleidoscope" aka. telescope and looked at the moon. Then he came in and wrote a report about the moon. He brought it into class the next day, and he got to read it aloud to his classmates!