It is Halloween time and so we started off the month with our Halloween PJ's. This year's jammies glow in the dark...not that that feature gets used very often because I have passed along my fear of the dark to my children. Soooo...we tried it out once and that was enough for them. This is the first year that the kids helped me dig out the Halloween decorations from the garage and designed our house the way that they wanted. Chloe couldn't stop and actually went into the Easter box and decided that we should combine Easter and Halloween together. (We still have a few bunny wreaths hanging here and there...)
We picked up some pumpkins and decided this was the year we would attempt to actually carve them. It was funny. It took about .32 seconds after Jon cut open the pumpkins for the kids to be completely grossed out with the idea of scooping out the guts and seeds. They insisted on gloves. Pansies.
After the scooping, the kids drew the faces that they wanted and Jon obliged.
We added some candles and placed them on the porch. They lasted for about 10 days and then they were so rotten that they had to be thrown away.
We were disappointed. It's like when a fresh Christmas tree is all decked out and then dies and is so dry that you have to take it down even before Christmas has come.
I think next year I may just have to find artificial pumpkins.
I love Halloween.
Beck wondering if he really has to dig out the insides
Chloe surveying the guts. Gotta be honest...there was a little bit of dry heaving involved.
Chloe has figured out that every face looks better with eyelashes
Practicing for Thanksgiving
Ava was sad that her pumpkin didn't get carved.
She changed her mind when she realized her pumpkin was the only one that didn't rot.
2 comments:
Jamie you are a crack up!! I love reading your blog! I hope you don't mind! =) Your kids are adorable and you are such a cute mommy!!
Glow in the dark jammies?!? You are the coolest mom ever!
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