October 29, 2005
Pun'kins with Pumpkins
Seeing as Halloween is coming up, the other night I took the boys to get pumpkins. Everybody has to carve pumpkins for Halloween, if you don’t… that’s just weird. After spending 15 minutes looking at all the pumpkins available, each boy chooses the one they wanted. Yes, I actually let each boy choose his own pumpkin. This was for my own amusement as Clone kept trying to pick up the pumpkin he wanted. He ended up choosing one that he could actually pick up. Considering his criteria AND the fact it has no stem, I don’t think he did a bad job. Boopie however was looking for something more to fit the design he had in mind. Here are both of their choices:
![](http://personalpages.tds.net/%7Espoonandblade/punkins1.jpg)
First we drew the design on a piece of paper, then we gutted and cleaned them both out. Clone loved this part; he could not get enough of the disemboweling of pumpkins. It was his desire to just through the pumpkin guts on the ground that was annoying. Finally we get around to actually carving the designs into the pumpkins. Boopie did his own this year. He wanted to do it by himself. Clone also wanted to do it himself. I put my foot down, much to his chagrin, and carved it for him. Here are the final products.
![](http://personalpages.tds.net/%7Espoonandblade/punkins2.jpg)
From all of us in the Contagion household to all of you, Happy Halloween!
Posted by Contagion in Family Life at October 29, 2005 09:53 AM | TrackBackThey are adorable!!!! The kids not the pumpkins, silly!
Hope you enjoy!
Boopie did a great job on his pumpkin! Clone's is ok, but dad helped! Happy Halloween!
Posted by: oddybobo at October 31, 2005 08:48 AMthey are precious. However, they look like they have a bit of the naughtiness in them.
Posted by: armywifetoddlermom at November 1, 2005 11:43 AMThe pumpkin on the left looks just like you :-)
Posted by: Harvey at November 1, 2005 04:12 PM