Okay-my only excuse is that volleyball has been all consuming. It is now over so now it is time to play catch up with my blog. We had a great Halloween week. We loved carving pumpkins on Wednesday night. The kids had been asking every day about when we would carve pumpkins and we finally couldn't put it off any longer. Cole went through a book and found a fun fiery face that he wanted on his pumpkin...he traced it onto his pumpkin...and cut quite a bit of it-just needed a little bit of help. We gave Ellee and Luke a marker and let them draw their faces on and then we cut out a face with most of the characteristics they wanted. The funnest part of that was trying to make eyelashes for Ellee's princess pumpkin and make googly eyes for Luke's silly monster pumpkin. I loved that they came up with ideas on their own for what type of pumpkins they wanted. Cole was a trooper this year. He dug right into the pumpkin guts and cleaned his out really well. It took a little bit of prodding to get Luke going, but once he got started he just kept going and cleaned most of his out by himself. Ellee was a little diva the entire time. We got her to reach into her pumpkin maybe a handful of times. We got big scoops probably twice and then daintly little pinches the other times. She wouldn't even attempt to finish so we got to help take care of that. It was much better than last year when we had to clean out all the pumpkins and did not enjoy it much at all. I was very proud of the final result. We had a good time as a family and got some super cute pumpkins.
