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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Football and Pumpkins

Sunday was a marathon sporting day.  First game up was the Washington Redskins followed by the Red Sox World Series Game.   While Bjorn was watching the game I thought it would be a good idea to carve pumpkins with the kids.  It would occupy them for a long time and they wouldn't notice the fact that they couldn't watch "kid shows"  all day.

I started by cutting open everyones pumpkins.  Then I thought they would all enjoy getting out the "guts".  As it turns out, none of kids liked the feeling of the "guts" and I ended up gutting all of them myself.

Then on to the designs.  Audrey wanted an Ariel, Lydia wanted a Hello Kitty, and Myles wanted a little green alien from Toy Story.  They all turned out really well if I do say so myself.  I felt like the little red hen in the end.  I bought the pumpkins, I gutted the pumpkins and I carved the pumpkins all by myself!  Maybe next year they will be able to help out a little more...


5 comments:

Melissa said...

Where's the pics?

Kristin said...

That Ariel is impressive!

My kids helped this year, but ended up making a bigger mess than if I'd just done it myself. Oh well. We have to make some sacrifices in order to raise happy well adjusted children, right?

Melissa said...

Wow looks good man.

Leslie said...

It takes a while before they can do much themselves. My kids have never liked the gutting either. The pumpkins look great though, I bet your kids were pleased. We didn't even get there this year...first year ever. And actually, I don't think they even missed it!

Angela said...

WOW so fancy!