This year, we sadly did not get out to a pumpkin patch. But, Nathan, Ella, and Adeline still each got to pick out a pumpkin (at Wal-Mart). It is fun how each kid is different. Nathan just wanted the biggest pumpkin he could find, Addie wanted a tall skinny pumpkin, and Ella went for something with an interesting stem. They decorated our front steps for a while, then the day before Halloween it was time to carve.
I got the tops cut off and we started to scoop, but carving pumpkins is definitely a Matt project. Unfortunately he's still working a lot, so it was somewhat of a late night...but something fun and special for the kids (and probably Matt too:)
Nathan claims to not like the smell of pumpkin...funny that I actually bought a candle to smell like pumpkin.
Matt is great. He let Nathan and Ella design their pumpkin faces on a piece of paper, then he copied it onto the pumpkin. Too bad Ella's stem is covering up Nathan's pumpkin's mouth (he did slits to look like Darth Vader...what is it with boys and Star Wars?!), Ella wanted a happy pumpkin, and Addie just gave Matt input as to what to carve.
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