Raising My Girls

Today something funny happened.  The girls decided that they wanted to carve their own Halloween pumpkins!

 When I was little we would carve a Halloween pumpkin every year.  So it seemed like the thing to do once I had kids of my own.  That is until they got just old enough to be completely grossed out by the pumpkin “guts.”  LOL!  After that we just went with those plug-in plastic pumpkins. 

Needless to say, I was surprised when they asked me to buy and let them carve their own pumpkins this year.  Today I did just that!  I let them each pick out a pumpkin of their own.  Then, after dinner they settled down at the kitchen table and went to work.

The older girls went right to cutting the “lid” off the top while I did it for the 3 year old.  Once inside the grossed out face of said 3 year old was hilarious.  Lots of “EWWWW” and “I’m not touching that” was repeated continuously.  I got her a measuring scoop and let her get to work.  It was too funny not to watch.

She instructed me on what kind of face her pumpkin should have, “Triangle eyes, a little nose, and a mouth!”  I cut the face out for her and let her continue her cleaning efforts.

Finally, after 30 minutes of “cleaning,” I finished it up and she had a jack-o-latern all her own!

The older girls… well, they’re still working on their pumpkins…. an hour later!  LOL!!!  Who knows what they’ll end up with?  LOL