We had so many little pumpkins on our porch this year! We planted some (late -- so we only had green or very small ones from our crop). We bought some to paint BOO on. We bought some to carve. Our kids painted some at a little city activity at the park. (Goldie got to help run that activity since she is on the Youth City Council.) Our girls painted some for Young Women's.
Lots of October pumpkins on the porch is always a happy thing. But an even happier thing is that we carved them outside this year! There is nothing cozier than lit jack-o-lanterns on the porch on Halloween. But, no matter how I try to reign the mess of carving in, it will not be reigned. And nearly every year it is too dark or too cold (or both) to create that mess anywhere but right in our kitchen. This year however the kids had the Friday before Halloween off. And the day was nice. And having all the pumpkin mess contained outside was something to rejoice over.
Summer wanted pictures with multiple pumpkins (hers was the little one with triangle eyes, a round nose, and lot of orange [yellow?] and shiny blue paint). And I was happy that Mette put on the queen costume she wore to school for a bit during the day. (For trick-or-treating she decided to be a wolf. So I'm happy we caught her in both costumes.)
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I mean…Wilbur Wright??! Who else but Jesse?!?
I am also very fond of that Supergirl.
And I suppose your multitude of pumpkins made up for our…very sad amount of NO pumpkins. Well. We ended up having two because the boys carved them at Young Men, but they were very strange-looking because Abe carved four faces on different sides of his so it just looked like it had been bombarded by a machine gun or something. And Malachi's was a squishy "Y." But at any rate! The poor, neglected other children didn't have ANY because I just never got to the store to GET any. And it was very sad. But not quite sad enough to make me do anything about it. Next year!!
(PS Carving outside=brilliant)
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