Carving Pumpkins
We’ve had our pumpkins for weeks now. But, somehow we almost let Halloween slip up on us without getting them carved. We finally brought them inside to carve the night before Halloween. Caeden and Lael both picked out their designs after much, much discussion and changing of the minds! Caeden chose a bat, and Lael chose a cat. Scooping out all the gunk was a chore, as usual. Caeden was pretty good about getting his hands down in there and dirty, but Lael was not thrilled at the prospect. Todd started helping her, and that was all it took. After that she became more of the manager, rather than the scooper/carver. Caeden didn’t want any help. It was taking him forever, so I finally convinced him to let me scoop out the insides. Then the carving started and he really did not want any help. He really did do most of the carving completely on his own, I only helped a bit. Lael was still acting in a managerial capacity. If you asked her, she would tell you that her job was to poke the pieces to make them fall out after Todd carved it.
