Pumpkin Carving
Yesterday I took part in one of my favorite Halloween activities - pumpkin carving. It was great! After dinner I helped Abby design and carve her pumpkin, followed by cutting out Abraham's goulish gourd. A highlight for me was using their new pumpkin-carving tool - a battery operated saw that cut out eyes, ears, noses and mouths so accurately and quickly.
It's so fun to take part in these daily life activities with the kids. Abraham is still at that age where he's not afraid to sit on a grown-up's lap and grab your hand, and tell me about how he cut his hand once with a knife, but that he's also gotten cut with a leaf and that was much, much worse. Nicholas kept adding to his Jack-O-Lantern - I didn't pay close attention to him and all of a sudden Noah's Ark was being blown up by bombs (and this was part of the pumpkin). Thankfully, his parents are ok with his theologically inaccurate creation (well, mom is ok, I wasn't there to see dad's reaction...).
Can't wait till Monday - Trick-Or-Treating with the kids!
posted by Carole | 8:01 PM
2 Comments:
For a minute I thought that your post was going to be about how you were deepening friendships by carving pumpkins (a la Lauren Winner). Still, pumpkin carving with little ones is always nice!
Yes, Em :). The LW reference was in the back of my mind. It's undoubtably true - the 1,000s of daily experiences shared with little ones (and not-so-little-ones) creates the type of community that is so appealing!
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