Friday, October 31, 2008

Pumpkin Adventures

Deciding to carve our pumpkins 6 days after we took them home from the pumpkin patch was a very bad idea. After we came home with our pumpkins I realized that we didn't have a carving kit so we decided to wait until we purchased one. Once we had purchase a carving kit with all the right tools we had to wait until Nick's and Reilly's schedule matched up. Anyway, in an attempt to prevent Maddy from playing with the pumpkins, the pumpkins were removed from our tile entry and placed on our carpeted office floor (another bad idea). And unbeknownst to us Reilly's poor pumpkin had begun to mold. It was totally disgusting, the mold that was eating away it's insides turned it mushy from top to bottom, plus the mold had traveled from it's inside to it's outside (remember I mentioned that it was sitting on carpet)! After the disappointment wore off we began to carve the other pumpkins only to find that the Luna pumpkin that Nick had picked out was also moldy... but not as bad as Reilly's. We were actually able to salvage Nick's. The moral of this story is never choose pumpkins that have rotten looking stems or little holes in the stems (we think that moisture was able to get inside of the pumpkins and began the mold process) and NEVER place any pumpkin on the carpet (the carpet wasn't damaged but if we hadn't caught it when we did it would have been)!

After we finished dealing with all of the mold we began to clean out and carve the remaining 3 pumpkins. I gave Rei my pumpkin and I carved Maddy's. Reilly choose the howling dogs in the night template and because it was probably the most challenging one she needed a little adult help. Maddy's pumpkin was to small to use one of the templates so I picked a face that I really liked and drew it on the pumpkin and then carved it. Nick didn't use any template at all, just his amazing love for the Lord!

This week the second graders at Rosedale North Elementary School put on a cute 'little' school performance as a treat after the PTC meeting on Tuesday. The kids all dressed up in their Halloween costumes and sang a couple of songs and told a handful of Halloween jokes. It was pretty cute... also did I mention, super short? Which was a blessing because Maddy's attention span is also super short. At the end they told all the kids to stay up on stage so that all parents could take pictures... I was stoked about that!

1 comment:

HAPPYHANERHOME said...

Sooo cute! Sorry about your pumpkins! At least you got around to carving yours! Ours are still sitting outside uncarved. :(

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